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...I like the small private museums here, such as the Richard Meier-designed Frieder Burda....
...As a bonus, Opera Rara includes half a disc of original numbers, written for the Baden-Baden premiere but discarded before the work’s success in Paris, which the Offenbach estate found buried at the back...
...Since the Berliner Philharmoniker left Salzburg for Baden-Baden’s Easter Festival 10 years ago, its annual opera productions have been characterised by stupendous soundscapes and mediocre stagings....
...This new five-CD set was recorded live at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in July last year....
...Additional reporting by Richard Milne in Oslo and Victor Mallet in Paris...
...In Europe, he points to significant growth on routes ill-served by airlines, including Istanbul to Tirana and Munich to Baden-Baden. “This could be the biggest year ever for the industry,” he says....
...Across Europe, the two big Easter festivals at Salzburg and Baden-Baden have gone....
...Many collectors assemble impressive contemporary paintings; few Europeans — Frieder Burda’s Richard Meier-designed museum in Baden-Baden is another rare example — exhibit them to the scintillating effect...
...The Alstom probe began when Richard Alderman was SFO director, continued throughout David Green’s six-year tenure and has concluded, barring any appeals, a few months after Lisa Osofsky took up the reins...
...For its new recording of Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet, made live at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, DG has brought together two of its big stars — the sovereign German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and young...
...Brenners in Baden-Baden has lately been showing Laurence Jenkell’s giant candy wrappers....
...richard.milne@ft.com @rmilneNordic...
...Filmed at Baden-Baden in the summer, this DVD is good value....
...Just so, but to magical effect, is Baden Baden. In Lang’s, strange, erotic odyssey across Europe, a jobless heroine, Ana (boyish-featured Salomé Richard, superb), drifts with her drifting plot....
...Richard Lutz, finance chief, will be acting chief executive, the company said, adding that it will try to find a replacement as soon as possible....
...It is shared, not incidentally, with Baden-Baden, the Polish National Opera and Beijing....
...One of them was Hans Filbinger, premier of the state of Baden-Württemberg....
...Tour continues to Bruges, Baden-Baden and Amsterdam, bfz.hu...
...Richard Eyre’s staging, introduced with a different cast in Baden-Baden two years ago, pretends to mirror film noir....
...Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG) The series of Mozart’s operas being recorded live at Baden-Baden by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe guarantees...
...He sailed through Richard Cragun’s multiple challenges with insouciant assurance....
...Richard Eyre’s production of Manon Lescaut for Baden-Baden’s Easter Festival is one grotesque absurdity from start to finish....
...Mr Textor, who worked under Richard B....
...the Dresden Staatskapelle, chose Arabella, Richard Strauss’s final opera with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal....
...“I expect the ECJ to sing from the ECB’s hymn sheet,” said Richard Barwell, senior European economist at RBS. The ECB is not completely off the hook, however....
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