Hints and tips:
...Montemezzi’s score weds influences of Wagner and Debussy with the full-throated lyricism of Italian verismo....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...Erica Wagner stayed in an Airbnb on this trip but recommends the Hotel Oranien....
...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 William Silber’s book is mostly about silver in American history...
...It is not the bass line of an unknown Wagner monologue or Puccini aria....
...This is not a bad idea: attempts to reinvent the form have been made before — Wagner and The Who spring to mind — and no doubt had become overdue....
...Radicalism, both musical and otherwise, haunted Wagner’s Tannhäuser (“Personal struggle! Morality!”)...
...Brook’s 1949 production of Strauss’s Salome; opera-related paintings by Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas; the original score of Verdi’s Nabucco; and one of two surviving scores of the first public opera, L’...
...L’Oreal pointed us to this March 2015 press release about “a pilot L’Oréal has with Powatag in the US” And then things go a little south. Carrefour: “We used their technology once in 2014.”...
...The company has said it has signed more than 1,000 agreements, with companies including Adidas, L’Oréal and Unilever. It has not revealed the financial terms of these deals....
...Powa said it had over 1,000 such agreements, including with companies including Adidas, L’Oréal and Unilever....
...For instance, its Spätlesen (or late-harvest) will not have more than 70 g/l residual sugar....
...Respighi’s score nods to Wagner and Massenet as well as Ravel but this riotous homage to Broadway is the most unexpected and exhilarating ingredient. athenee-theatre.com...
...For a small opera L’elisir d’amore thrives on big personalities....
...Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune was coolly and cleanly played. The prelude to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde pressed ahead with ardour....
...From Dr Gernot Wagner and Prof Martin L Weitzman. Sir, Richard Tol asserts that “Bogus prophecies of doom will not fix the climate” (Comment, 1 April)....
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