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...The latest, L’Heure Exquise, marks the 40th anniversary of her Covent Garden debut. The 70-minute piece was created by Maurice Béjart for the then 62-year-old La Scala legend Carla Fracci in 1998....
...From Laclos’ Les Liaisons Dangereuses to Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant, Groskop manages to cover centuries of ground without patronising newcomers to French literature or boring its habitués....
...She was born Marguerite Marie Cécile Le Bihan on April 10 1919 in Royan on the Atlantic coast, and brought up by a militant family....
...Now, a bit like Marguerite Duras, she writes down her groceries list and everyone finds it amazing.”...
...Chantilly and marguerite lace featured prominently, as did fringing (some of it in crystal strands), and neo-retro bell bottom trousers made of voile....
...Ballet’s heroines have been having a rough ride in the UK so far this year, with most of them — Giselle, Manon, Marguerite, Odette, Juliet — ending up dead in their lovers’ arms....
...Meredith Frampton’s icily smooth, hyper-detailed portraits such as “Marguerite Kelsey”, glamorous, melancholic, have affinities with Neue Sachlichkeit....
...That’s when Marguerite Camina Benhoura, the wealthy and cultured French wife of an Algerian judge, took the talented little girl under her wing. And what a wing!...
...His first novel — L’Amour est un plaisir (Love is a pleasure) — was published in 1956....
...Matisse’s portrait of his daughter Marguerite “La Jaquette rayée” and Paul Signac’s harbour watercolour “La Rochelle”, which hung in Ishibashi’s living room, each leave large areas of white ground bare to...
...Crozes-Hermitage Some leading Crozes- Hermitage producers and their finest wines • Domaine Aléofane Domaine Aléofane • Julien Cécillon Les Marguerites • Domaine de Chasselvin Domaine de Chasselvin...
...She seems more overwhelmed by her recent trip to China, where she gave live readings of Marguerite Duras’s The Lover — a partly autobiographical novel about the author’s affair, when she was 15, with an...
...One of them was Didier Bezace, but all seems to be forgiven: the trilogy of works he has just staged for the Théâtre de l’Atelier takes us back to the heart of Duras’ world....
...He mounted his first professional production, Victor Hugo’s L’intervention, aged 19....
...We know this not just from the memoirs of contemporaries such as Marguerite Long, who gave the premiere of the G major concerto, but also from Ravel’s own performances, some of which were preserved for posterity...
...The test of Gilliam’s acumen lies not in his self-confessedly messy “concept”, nor in his virtuoso array of film-collage, trompe l’oeil and coup de théâtre....
...Riding takes note of Albert Camus’ novel L’Etranger, plays by Sartre (Huis Clos) and Jean Anouilh (Antigone), Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps and Marcel Carné’s film Les Enfants du Paradis...
...‘Memoirs of Hadrian’ by Marguerite Yourcenar (1951) A fictional letter composed by the dying emperor in which “a man who was almost wise” attempts to pass on what he has learnt to Marcus Aurelius....
...‘Richard Prince: American Prayer’, Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, Paris, to June 26; Richard Prince: de Kooning, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, to May 21; ‘L’Invention de l’Oeuvre, Rodin et les Ambassadeurs...
...When Garanca joined him for Marguerite’s D’amour l’ardente flamme and excerpts from Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila, Dudamel was able to conjure an anxious fragility from his musicians....
...The company performed the ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, last year, with Bolshoi prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova as the “fallen woman” Marguerite; here, on the opening night, Zakharova again dances...
...It was all quickly forgotten, except by Marguerite Duras, who had not one but two cracks at dramatising the story. It premièred in 1968 with some changes....
...‘Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty’, New Museum, New York, until February 7 Tel: +1 212 219 1222 www.newmuseum.org...
...She could be a post-lobotomy Marguerite Duras....
...When the nostalgic Marguerite sings “D’amour l’ardente flame”, she is dwarfed by a massive replication of her own face while hungry flames lick multiple screens....
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