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...The production has its weaknesses, but John Macfarlane’s sumptuous costumes and easel-worthy sets are a joy in themselves and Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare has made sure of a five-star review with a...
...FICTION JANUARYThe Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (Virago)Hot on the heels of Michael Cunningham’s Day, fellow American Sigrid Nunez gives us her novelistic take on lockdown life during Covid — albeit in wilder...
...But who would have predicted a Christmas-themed Darwin Nunez X Jim Royle mashup?...
...The Act One: Rose Adagio in which the un-pricked Princess holds her balance (and her nerve) as she greets four suitors in turn can sometimes seem like stuntwork — the former Times critic John Percival dubbed...
...In Barrie Kosky’s must-see production, US soprano Lise Lindstrom sings Salome and British tenor John Daszak is Herod, while Swedish mezzo-soprano Katarina Dalayman plays Herodias....
...Hot air: John Burn-Murdoch explains what we get wrong when we talk about global warming....
...Energy transition is the “new industrial revolution”, says US climate envoy John Kerry in the latest instalment of our Climate Exchange series....
...At the matinee, Marianela Núñez made easy work of Natalia Petrovna’s constant changes of speed and direction, and her emotions vacillated just as readily: languid one minute; frantic the next....
...If the polls are correct, the Socialist-led government that has lowered tensions with Gibraltar will be replaced by the conservative People’s party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, which is likely to be...
...His scheduled Odette, Marianela Nuñez, was indisposed but was gallantly subbed by the polished (if unengaging) Yasmine Naghdi....
...By September, Marcella Nunez-Smith, head of Joe Biden’s Covid-19 Equity Task Force, cited survey data showing roughly equal percentages of white, black and Hispanic adults reporting that they had received...
...The Rose Waltz has been reworked to minimise physical contact but the magic of Confiturenburg survived undiminished thanks (again) to the dream pairing of Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov as the Sugar...
...Great charts from our Covid-19 data guru, John Burn-Murdoch. You can make oat milk from humble oats and water, whizzed up in a blender....
...Tom Inglesby, director of the Center of Health Security at Johns Hopkins, said without a “very compelling reason” public health experts would not be advising gathering at the moment....
...John Macfarlane’s sumptuous designs and shimmering transformations are a joy in themselves and Thursday’s opening was cast to the hilt with Vadim Muntagirov as Siegfried and Marianela Nuñez as his enchanted...
...For Marcella Nunez-Smith, who heads up the Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force, the size of the challenge is clear....
...His longest and most celebrated partnership was with Marianela Núñez....
...Their moods are fuelled by snatches of Chopin arranged by John Lanchbery in “a welding job” (Ashton’s phrase)....
...Separately on Tuesday, Spain temporarily pulled its frigate Méndez Nuñez from its participation in a US-led combat fleet....
...The three central duets (gorgeous work from both casts: Marianela Nuñez, Laura Morera and Fumi Kaneko all outstanding) are packed with beautiful, innovative lifts and dramatised with mysterious but richly...
...Putting the swans back in traditional tutus was always going to win friends in the crush bar but John Macfarlane’s new sets and costumes are uniformly superb....
...John Carreyrou’s book is a testimony to the power of investigative journalism, a beautifully controlled narrative that challenges the gold-rush mentality of Silicon Valley....
...It is, says the programme, “inspired by the book by Deborah Davis” and claims to deal with John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Mme Pierre Gautreau, which caused a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1884....
...“HBO already has its deal with Sky and has deals in other parts of the world,” said Armando Nuñez, president and chief executive of CBS’ global distribution group....
...And yes, John Cranko’s 1965 ballet does lack the texture and depth of the great verse novel, but when cast and played to the hilt it remains a powerful piece of dance theatre....
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