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...A socially-distanced audience of 400 will get five operas, including new productions of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen....
...Sotheby’s is selling Villa L’Ara, a five-bedroom property near the piazzetta with sea views and garden, for €6.5m....
...At its ArtLab prototype factory outside Florence last month, as workers dressed in white coats labelled “Maison de L’Amour” scurried around, Mr Bizzarri told reporters that “3D technology would be a big...
...The 28.2cm-high white marble “Andromède” (1887) belonged to Chilean diplomat Carlos Morla-Vicuña and his wife Luísa Lynch del Solar from 1888 and had been untraced since the 1930s....
...A new restoration of Bryan Forbes’s The L-Shaped Room (1962), playing at the BFI London Film Festival, reminded me of that, with its dingy Notting Hill lodging house and Bafta-winning performance by Leslie...
...Belgian-born 57-year-old designer delivered one of his most powerful collections of late in this ode to decadence inspired by the Ballet Russes and the heiress, arts patron, living muse and “dandy” Marchesa Luisa...
...He imbued economist Francisco de Cabarrús, delivering a radical speech in a fur-trimmed lime suit, with the lively, exaggerated gestures of Velázquez’s buffoon Pablo de Valladolid....
...“Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and “Olympia”, the twin masterpieces that changed the course of modern art, delivered their shock by being scandalously prosaic, essentially urban – Parisian – reprises of classical...
...homage to the “Goldfish” paintings of 1912-15 with which Matisse explored abstraction; the skull might nod towards Picasso’s primitivism or Dutch vanitas; the nude reflected in the glass is the Marchesa Luisa...
...“It has been a difficult time for the fund management industry in Spain,” says Luisa Gómez Bravo, head of global asset management at BBVA, Spain’s second biggest bank....
...L’Oro dei Farlocchi is an antiques shop where I could happily put up curtains and move in – the taste inside is faultless – while the Luisa Beccaria boutique is full of princess-pretty vintage-styled couture...
...Long, fresh, minerally and showing cool-climate restraint. 13% £11.99 Majestic (2 for £9.99 each) Luisa Friulano 2008 Friuli 17- Drink 2009-11 The new name for Tocai Friulano from north east Italy....
...Although he taught for a while, singing took over – first when he became a member of the chorus at Sadler’s Wells in London, then in his first big role, as Osmano in Cavalli’s L’Ormindo at Glyndebourne in...
...The service stops at Burgos and Valladolid before reaching Madrid, so it is possible to step out one bright morning into the heart of Spain....
...Action Groups in Asia, Hong Kong Charles Abugre, Head of Policy, Christian Aid, UK Christian Felber, Co-founder, ATTAC Austria, Austria Clare Nolan, NGO representative, Sisters of the Good Shepherd D L...
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