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...It took a pandemic to slow down Elena Ochoa Foster. In normal times, the Spanish publisher is a 21st-century nomad....
...Elena Zilio is the splendidly rasping Grandmother Buryjovka, David Stout sings strongly as the Foreman, and Jacquelyn Stucker shines as young Karolka....
...The diamantine soprano of Elena Tsallagova sparkles in perfectly cut coloratura....
...For Elena and Margherita Micheluzzi, the traditions they are revisiting are truly close to home....
...In particular, the enthusiasm of contemporary artists — such as the Venice-based conceptualist Elena Mazzi, who led me to Ongaro e Fuga’s door — for the playful opportunities inherent in decorative mirrors...
...By now, after eating as we cruise, we have moored at Sant’Elena on the eastern tip of the city....
...Nobel-winning economist Michael Spence looks at the way China builds global economic networks: two new silk roads and monetary openness....
...Curator Elena Pontiggia has scooped up paintings, works on paper, studies for the public murals that were commissioned by Mussolini’s regime, and, crucially, Sironi’s last, marvellous, postwar paintings....
...In his painting of “Saint Elena”, Conegliano becomes a metaphor for Jerusalem itself....
...Her prince is Toby Spence, whose charm is more visual than vocal: it’s time Spence recognised that his skills lie outside the Italian repertoire....
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