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...Elsewhere Maria Fitzpatrick has rounded up the best advice on how to commission a portrait – because what better way to imprint yourself upon your loved ones than to present them with a canvas of your face...
...Literature also pervades his collecting: he owns inkwells used by Stéphane Mallarmé and Rainer Maria Rilke, and has portraits of Baudelaire by both Fantin-Latour and the Beninese artist Roméo Mivekannin....
...Director Romeo Castellucci places Don Giovanni in a deconsecrated church and lets heaven hurl expensive toys at him. This seducer is both the spoilt brat and the life force in all of us....
...Treasures include a 1930s lemon-adorned vase found in Venice as well as larger pieces like a 1960s brass and mirrored-glass coffee table by Romeo Rega....
...Maria, the Natalie Wood part, is played by newcomer Rachel Zegler, a Colombian-American teen who rose to fame singing on YouTube....
...The supporting cast — Gábor Bretz as Jochanaan, John Daszak as Herod, Anna Maria Chiuri as Herodias — is adequate, not more....
...At Covent Garden in 1964 he created for Maria Callas a production of Tosca that became her farewell to the London stage but served as a platform for dozens of prima donnas for the following 40 years....
...The best gift I’ve given recently was a drawing of an Alfa Romeo 2000 Sportiva, which was designed by Franco Scaglione for Carrozzeria Bertone. I drew it for a great friend and Alfa Romeo collector....
...Jose Maria Lacuesta, the Consejo’s export director, was also in London, capital of Rioja’s biggest market after Spain, to explain these new categories....
...The opera house habit can be a tough one to break, as demonstrated by the Georgian-Mexican soprano Maria Katzarava and the Italian tenor Stefano La Colla....
...Even Shakespeare would have been hard-pressed to render a Juliet reeking of the anchovies in her Caesar salad or a Romeo weighed down by the slab of porterhouse he downed at dinner....
...Expect director Maria Aberg to deliver seething, dark emotions and a high body count....
...But with charmers Tyler Angle and Maria Kowroski, it was Romeo and Juliet all over again. Actually, it always is for Balanchine. Every story is a love story, and every love exacts a price....
...(Romeo Beckham, who features in the new campaign, is a little harder to explain but, well, all families need the next generation!)...
...Stephen Pile’s The Book of Heroic Failures, a celebration of human inadequacy, was a huge success when first published in 1979, writes Maria Howard....
...It is impossible to feel so confident about Maria, a hackneyed Romeo and Juliet-style story of young love throttled by politics....
...Discussion among the panellists, who include Max Hastings, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Maria Misra and Dominic Sandbrook, have been lively....
...Opera, film and theatre: legendry Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s productions include Tosca, which premiered at Covent Garden with Maria Callas in 1964, and the 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet...
...Back in Milan, earlier this year he was given a hero’s welcome as Romeo, in a Salzburg Festival production of Roméo et Juliette at La Scala....
...Isaac Stappas as Tybalt and Maria Bystrova as Lady Capulet, his mistress, knitted the drama together. These clandestine lovers are soulmates, even if that soul is black....
...Tony like Maria in “West Side Story”? Romeo like Juliet? I could go on, but I rather think fashion will do it for me....
...It is perhaps no accident that his most famous and romantic love-story, Romeo and Juliet, has one of the highest counts of bawdy doubles entrendres in the canon....
...So does Dalí’s triptych-like decor for Romeo and Juliet: an elongated face astride a horse, a dying Christ, and a cathedral full of mourners recalling El Greco’s “Burial of Count Orgaz”....
...As Tony, the Romeo figure, Matt Cavenaugh has Irish good looks and a cheer-your-mood tenor....
...www.gobsquad.comweb Salzburg Roméo et Juliette Shakespeare’s classic tale of “star-crossed lovers” comes to the Salzburg festival in the form of Gounod’s opera, Roméo et Juliette....
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