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...soaring finale for the Royal Ballet’s meaty new MacMillan retrospective....
...The Royal Ballet’s 50th anniversary revival opened last week and was well danced and vividly played by a company on fine form....
...Vadim Muntagirov’s 2022 run of Rudolfs in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling has darkened and intensified his unmissable reading of Siegfried....
...Osipova’s reading of Kenneth MacMillan’s anti-heroine grows ever more detailed and complex....
...After working with the Royal Ballet’s education department, she was an associate artist at the Royal Opera House from 2002 to 2007, and made productions for its smaller stages....
...The writer, an FT contributing editor, is chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former chief economist at the Bank of England In the early years of inflation targeting in the UK, the then head...
...Ryoichi Hirano, fresh from his triumph in Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto with the pocket-sized Ballet Nights initiative in Docklands the previous evening, danced the role of Espada....
...version of Kenneth MacMillan’s Anastasia....
...Five Tory MPs, including Edward Leigh and John Hayes, have written to deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden, business secretary Kemi Badenoch and culture secretary Lucy Frazer questioning the use of overseas...
...Opening remarks from Yoshiki Takeuchi, OECD deputy secretary-general UK: Commonwealth Day memorial service at Westminster Abbey, involving the 56 member countries and members of the British royal family...
...Ballade at the Theatre Royal in Bath....
...Until February 16; further information and tickets here ‘Manon’, Royal Opera House The Royal Ballet’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s gorgeous 1974 classic, with a score drawn from across Massenet’s work...
...This can be a risk — slapstick can carry a whiff of misogyny — but the writing is just the right blend of klutzy virtuosity in the tradition of Ashton’s Alain in La fille mal gardée or the drunk scene in Kenneth...
...Website; Directions— Catharine Murdock, retired, Middleburg, Virginia, US Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm Unbeatable location, with views of the royal palace....
...I was, until 2020, an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London, where I was a professor of information security (hence the interest in cryptographic algorithms)....
...The pair returned in the bedroom duet from Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, a cut-and-come-again coupling in which the lovers are forever running back for one last loved-up lift....
...He will replace Peter Hayes following his retirement early next year, according to an internal memo seen by DD....
...But, as with recent events, responsible authorities such as the Royal College of Surgeons failed to take any effective action after a whistleblower exposed the problem....
...Unlike the Louvre in Paris or the Prado in Madrid, the National Gallery’s is not a royal collection or a bequest....
...A live cinema relay always guarantees a high-gloss finish, but the Royal Ballet was on exceptional form for the opening night of the new season....
...There were tell-tale signs on the opening night of Mayerling at the Paris Opera Ballet that it will take time for Kenneth MacMillan’s tale of Austro-Hungarian dysfunction to flow in its French incarnation...
...Act one ends with a male duet for the bitter, accusatory Son (Zwakele Tshabalala) and the conciliatory Father (Kenneth Kellogg), who are at loggerheads over the Father being a cop — the blue of the title...
...remarked on the injustice of the fact that Mother Teresa died just a few days after Princess Diana in 1997: the Albanian nun’s remarkable, if controversial, life was thus overshadowed by the death of a royal...
...The confused but intriguing piece serves as a footnote to the company’s full-length Casanova by Kenneth Tindall, focusing on the anti-hero’s vexed relationship with the Catholic church....
...Coward, who starred, wrote, directed and scored the film, received an honorary Oscar and a royal visit during filming in 1942....
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