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...So here’s to Esther, to Renée — and to everyone else embarking on new challenges this summer 🍾....
...L’Escadrille at Le Fouquet’s 99 Avenue des Champs Elysées, 75008 Paris Good for: Convenience and proximity to business neighbourhoods Not so good for: The food, whether breakfast or dinner, is forgettable...
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...My chef is Alain Passard of Paris’s L’Arpège, who revolutionised vegetable-based cuisine in France....
...A major advantage here is that, after a few drinks, when hunger strikes, the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis offers everything from trendy bistro dishes at Le 52 to sophisticated locavore tasting plates at L’...
...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....
...Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto Alagna in France sang a duet from L’elisir d’amore with Alagna brandishing a champagne bottle and dancing round the room....
...On an afternoon stroll with her husband in the well-heeled seventh arrondissement of Paris, 66-year-old Catholic pensioner Renée Petit says she feels “horribly tortured” by the electoral choice ahead of...
...Renée Fleming’s career is hardly in need of spotlights, though the Barbican is at least showcasing her in a varied sequence of events — a solo recital, a panel discussion and, last weekend, a masterclass...
...In the kitchen is Kevin Tickle, an alumnus of Simon Rogan at L’Enclume, who earned his first Michelin star in October....
...Next came Helen Mirren, 69 years young and resplendent as the newly signed face of French beauty behemoth L’Oréal....
...Neil Lane archival collection at the 85th annual Academy Awards”; “Zoe Saldana jewelled vision in Neil Lane white diamonds”; “Hollywood’s most glamorous stars dazzled in Van Cleef & Arpels on Oscar night: Renee...
...In 2009, Renée Fleming gave the premiere of the final, completed version of Le temps l’horloge, which French composer Henri Dutilleux wrote for her, and the highlight of this concert was the work’s first...
...Renée Fleming Poèmes (Decca)...
...If you stick with audio, there is much to enjoy in Jordan’s account of the symphony with the Orchestre de L’Opéra National de Paris....
...She started with Jean-Michel Damase’s reworking of Washington Square (L’Héritière) and then programmed his opera on Anouilh’s Colombe....
...The only two books I’m sure I’ll take with me are L’arte di essere felici by Arthur Schopenhauer and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina....
...Nikki Renée Daniels sings the once ethereal “Summertime”, now a duet with baritone, in an odd earthbound key. The others in the modest ensemble are, if nothing else, tireless....
...But neither her sexuality nor her unwed parenthood are enough to make Renee Johnson an American conservative’s worst nightmare....
...With their metallic sheens and stylised naturalism, the monumental 1920s portraits – “Mlle Renee Maha”, stiff and enigmatic as a sphinx alongside a giant vase of chrysanthemums; “Miss Edmee Davis” in emerald...
...(Le Bosquet was bought to cocoon the couple from the shock of the suicide the year before of Renée Montchaty, a young model who was also the painter’s lover.)...
...When baritone Thomas Hampson cancelled his engagement, Dresden drafted in Renée Fleming....
...Renee Fleming sang the role of Violetta in 2009; Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho is Eyre’s new “fallen woman”....
...Renée Fleming takes the role of the titular Saracen sorceress who enthrals Christian soldiers in her island prison during the Crusades....
...According to officials at Insead, L’Oréal, the cosmetics and beauty group, has doubled its recruiting efforts on campus....
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