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...Ticket sales have been strong for the two operas — Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore — and there will also be youth events, two oratorios in performance and Christmas concerts....
...Richter’s record at auction stands at the equivalent of $46.4mn, made for a 1986 “Abstraktes Bild” sold at Sotheby’s London in 2015....
...But it’s the vibrant painting by Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca that he talks most excitedly about: “This is an artist I love....
...Villains (M L Rio, 2017) and The Cloisters (Katy Hays, 2022) that have a similar campus setting and intellectual moodiness....
...Gerhard Richter in St Moritz In 1989, German artist Gerhard Richter sought advice on where to go on holiday from the Swiss curator Dieter Schwarz, who suggested the Waldhaus, a very traditional, family-run...
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...The highest price of the evening was $33mn for Gerhard Richter’s 1994 “Abstraktes Bild” ($37mn with fees, est $35mn)....
...“Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Kippenberger were all there. Cologne is not a large city so we were all immersed in it.”...
...Nadezhda Pavlova’s regal Donna Anna earns the most applause, but Anna Lucia Richter’s Zerlina makes her role an equally worthy centrepoint....
...Sotheby’s catchy auction title of “Rembrandt to Richter” didn’t quite reflect reality....
...Donna Flynn, vice-president of talent at office furniture group Steelcase, made a point of showing vulnerability to staff, describing days that she had found personally tough during the crisis....
...The luxurious Rosa Feola (Donna Fiorilla) suggestively rippled through coloratura. Giulio Mastrototaro (Don Geronio) briefly showcased his burnished voice from the stalls....
...The piece was the Spaniard’s direct response to the earlier “L’homme au nez cassé” by Auguste Rodin, who has no fewer than nine pieces on this roster....
...His career at La Scala began in 1953, designing sets and costumes for Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri....
...The role calls on its prima donna to act like a prima donna, which can be awkward....
...Buyers sought out the relative value of Surrealist works, just as they had at Christie’s the previous evening, notably Joan Miró’s vibrant “Peinture (L’Air)” (1938) for a within-estimate £10.4m (£12m with...
...They opened the concert with the spotlight on the string section, showing their prowess in the “Prélude à l’unisson” from Enescu’s Suite No 1....
...The chain is the flagship of L Brands, the business he founded as The Limited in 1963....
...A very personal and poetic book which l read on the Isle of Harris, overlooking the Minch towards the Shiants....
...The sale also features work by Gerhard Richter, David Hockney, Rudolf Stingel, Christopher Wool, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hurvin Anderson and Laura Owens....
...But helping to set the top of the Basquiat market, at levels more abstract than the Richter, may be the finest performance ever....
...The work of the Bolivian-American Donna Huanca is born out of painting and performance art, and typically centres on staged performances for which the naked bodies of the performers — usually women or trans-women...
...Among the lesser composers, Francesco Durante’s “Son io, barbara donna” is like a cantata in its shape and inherent drama....
...Harrods sells one in hand-spun pewter by L’Orfèvrerie d’Anjou with a handle in case you need to enjoy your bottle on-the-go. If wine is your preferred tipple, don’t forget the corkscrew....
...Bayrle, born in 1937 and part of that startling pool of talent that emerged from Germany at the time (which includes Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Keifer and others), is less well known outside his...
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