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...Montemezzi’s score weds influences of Wagner and Debussy with the full-throated lyricism of Italian verismo....
...Karen McKee, the head of product solutions for ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest producers of plastic, told the Financial Times: “The issue is pollution. The issue is not plastic.”...
...In hell, he meets characters from works by Puccini, Wagner, Verdi, Berlioz, Gounod and Monteverdi in a “quirky, grotesque, divergent and provocative” production that brings in innovative set design and multimedia...
...“This is a serious blow to the authority of the country and the authority of the president,” Karen Shakhnazarov, a Kremlin-linked film director, said on a popular online livestream show....
...Great Proms of the past, such as the complete Wagner Ring cycles, the Beethoven symphonies under Daniel Barenboim, or “Stockhausen Day”, are no longer to be seen....
...But the true source of his visions is opera-mad fellow employee Amy (Karen Fishwick), who is trying to woo him with a Walkman full of musical greats....
...According to L’Equipe, PSG ditched plans for a US tour after being offered €20mn to divert to Japan instead....
...The next, “Wagner Drive” pulls you into a dizzy encounter with younger Hockney at the wheel of an open white Mercedes hurtling through California’s hills to the roar of Ride of the Valkyries....
...Fierce Masha observes her daughter’s bond with Karen wistfully: “Karen was close to fifty but, in Masha’s estimation, stunted in all the right places.”...
...With a background at L’Oréal making cosmetics containers, Paslier began crafting seaweed materials in his kitchen. Now, Notpla processes about 30 seaweeds from around the world....
...On stage at the Grand Ole Opry, the weekly concert that is to country music what Bayreuth is to Wagner, Karen Black, playing Connie White, approaches the mic in a red dress trimmed with sequins....
...Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz is as slight a confection as Italian verismo has to offer, a simple tale of gentle, young love among the cherry trees....
...L’Oréal plans to launch corresponding devices for foundation and skincare....
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...En route to the Master of Wine course, Scott worked for the American wine writer Karen MacNeil and the impeccable Spottswoode winery in Napa Valley....
...There are childhood favourites: notably Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time (1962), the first novel Kakutani, as a bookish little girl, discovered for herself, and Sendak and Seuss too....
...Wagner’s Die Walküre, kicking off the festival on June 1, will still be in the theatre....
...There’s nothing geeky about transport posters, assures Karen Lansdown of Travel on Paper....
...Although Boohoo has more deals under its belt — acquiring Karen Millen, Coast, Oasis, Miss Pap and Warehouse over the past 18 months alone — Asos has also sized up plenty of targets....
...The generous programme lasts nearly 90 minutes and includes operas that are unfamiliar in Kaufmann’s repertoire, such as Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine, Massenet’s Le Cid and Cilea’s L’arlesiana....
...Passementerie Verrier is the last workshop of its kind in Paris (and a supplier to high-end fabric store Claremont Furnishing in London, New York and Los Angeles), and Les Passementeries de l’Ile de France...
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24/$29.95 Silber’s book is mostly about silver in America, rather than...
...Karen E Wagner and Erica Baird Co-Founders, Lustre, New York, NY, US...
...Erica Wagner stayed in an Airbnb on this trip but recommends the Hotel Oranien....
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