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.... ★★★★☆ ‘Peter Grimes’ to October 11, eno.org At the Royal Opera House, a buoyant revival of Donizetti’s comedy L’elisir d’amore offers light relief....
...In the restaurant is Justin Cogley, who won Best New Chef laurels from Food & Wine, American’s culinary bible, for his delicious work at Aubergine, the restaurant in Fink’s other hotel, L’Auberge Carmel....
...Casting, Tiago Martins at Ben Grimes Casting. Hair, Blake Henderson at CLM using L’Oréal. Make-up, Rebecca Wordingham at Bryant using Surratt and Augustinus Bader. Set design, Phoebe Shakespeare....
...March 28 to June 30; further information and tickets here ‘Impressionisti: l’alba della modernità’ (Impressionists: The Dawn of Modernity), Museo della Fanteria In honour of the 150th anniversary of the...
...Casting, Ben Grimes at Drive Represents. Hair, Tamas Tuzes at L’Atelier. Make-up, Ren Nobuko Huelster at Bridge. Photographer’s assistants, John Temones and Tony Jarum....
...Grime, crime, smoking and even defecating on trains were other gripes identified in a recent survey of regular commuters by the local radio station WBEZ....
...Casting, Ben Grimes at Drive Represents. Hair, Alexander Soltermann at Home. Make-up, Ruben Masoliver at Walter Schupfer. Photographer’s assistant, Vassili Boclé....
...The era when the letters NF would only ever be followed by L? That time has passed....
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...Casting, Ben Grimes. Hair and make-up, Homa Safar at Tann. Photographer’s assistant, Christian Koepenick. Stylist’s assistant, Paget Millard. Hair and make-up assistant, Anna Kato....
...Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini leather sandals, £470 Givenchy cotton vest, £550, and matching cutout trompe l’oeil trousers with apron, £850....
...The deal will bring CAA’s clients — which include Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg — under the same roof as ICM’s Samuel L Jackson, Olivia Colman and Uma Thurman....
...A new venue belonging to the Academy of Fine Arts Florence is housed there, as well as LVMH’s IME (L’Institut des Métiers d’Excellence)....
...One of my favourite places to seek peace and perspective is the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries, just off the Place de la Concorde....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas by Martha Zamora....
...Amid kitsch Abba routines, the parody band’s “Frida” plugged their forthcoming tour....
...She recalls the relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as being “quite wild”, while Leonora Carrington would have dreams that she had left her body....
...Frida Kahlo’s early cross-dressing, love of traditional Mexican dress and creative use of prosthetics were bold statements on her gender, heritage and disability....
...The story is full of allegorical meaning relevant to the politics of the 1890s, when L. Frank Baum wrote the original book, but it is easy to see contemporary parallels, too....
...Then came Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, which provided the most dynamic music-making of the evening....
...Finally, all that is left are the holes in the paper, as a grime-smeared Tom meets his end in Bedlam....
...There is not much grime or anguish, dialogue or doubt. The brilliant, catchy title will sell Phishing for Phools....
...For subsequent collections, he has built on many of the tropes of his first; trompe-l’oeil embroidery, rich embellishment, pretty blouses and fitted jackets....
...But the New Yorker bore responsibility for the lethargy, having just switched from rap bangers to a dreamy ode to hallucinogens, “L$D”, complete with trippy visuals and talk of “this hippy life”....
...September 13; Kraszna-Krausz and First Book Awards 2015, to June 28 sciencemuseum.org.uk Menier Gallery, ‘The Bridge and Black Walls’, Robert Gumpert, to May 23, meniergallery.co.uk Michael Hoppen, ‘Frida...
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