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...Static set pieces included an auto-da-fé, usually a spectacular climax, that offered little more than a sad procession of writhing prisoners and torch-wielding extras....
...the new edition keep Monteverdi’s vocal parts and bass line intact also serves as a check on flights of fancy by Sharon, who has staged a truncated Götterdämmerung in a parking garage and had the acts of La...
...Enrolled at FE colleges, they have to resit the maths exam again and again and again. Headteachers' organisations, unhappy about all this demoralisation, have called these kids 'the forgotten third.'...
...We are suspended, on the outskirts of LA, far from the madding crowd....
...Fe and completed in 1778 (after the previous theatre burnt down)....
...Intoning monks seated in choir stalls emerged from plumes of stage smoke and hooded prisoners from Flanders lined up for execution during the spartan auto-da-fé....
...June 30-July 2, lovesupremefestival.com Santa Fe Opera Festival, New Mexico Recently voted festival of the year at the International Opera Awards, Santa Fe has long dominated the Southwest’s opera diary...
...Incidental elements add variety: a swinging incense burner, a huge Christlike statue in distress, real people occupying the boxes for the auto-da-fé....
...These were the Palais Jamai in Fes, where the water was hot....
...June 23-August 14, bard.edu Santa Fe Opera As sunset beckons, nothing equals opera under an overarching sky looking out to the New Mexico mountains....
...“Siena mi fé, disfecemi Maremma — ‘Siena made me, Maremma unmade me’” — wrote Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy....
...There are two works by Pascin, including “La Figurante du Palace” (1927, est £18,000-£22,000)....
...It’s very LA – like aerobics, but targeted at women like me who used to go out clubbing but then become moms and career women....
...I’ve been buying them for around 15 years and now have 30 or so, sourced from three dealers – Laurent Dodier and Julien Flak in Paris and Brant Mackley in Santa Fe....
...Its three locations in LA’s buzzy Sycamore district attract an equally buzzy clientele, such as Diane Keaton and Ellen Degeneres....
...La Banque Postale’s private bank subsidiary, BPE, and a Dutch trade union were two of the five members that PRI expelled....
...Each year before the fair, they have one made for me at a little jewellery store, Dell Fox, in Santa Fe, where they live....
...After all these years, the truffles from La Maison du Chocolat are still my favourites, and the packaging doesn’t hurt – I call it the Hermès of chocolate....
...— Begin the day at the Farmacia del Cambio (above) in Turin, looking over the old Piedmont parliament in Piazza Carignano....
...Situated trackside, La Posada was the masterpiece of architect Mary Colter, who for 40 years worked with Fred Harvey developing hotels along the line of the Santa Fe railroad....
...He’d been inspired by a night out at a dive bar in Santa Fe, while exploring the Turquoise Trail....
...He scaled new heights in January by making La bohème (his first Puccini opera) sound unrecognisably fresh....
...William Dazeley is ideal as the bluff Count, and Andrew Shore vivid as the world-weary theatre director, La Roche. Only Hanna Hipp’s overly fruity take on the actress Clairon feels like a misfire....
...In New York, I like to ride up Bear Mountain; in LA, there’s nothing better than cruising along the Pacific Coast Highway....
...La Fromagerie, 2-6 Moxon St (lafromagerie.co.uk). Trunk, 8 Chiltern High St (020-7486 2357)....
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