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...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...Costes x Liaigre The maison’s first capsule collection with the hip French hotel brand Costes will be unveiled at its flagship store on rue du Faubourg St-Honoré....
...There’s no “hurry up and order because we need your table back” or “the name of this scallop is Sandy, and she was hand-dived in St Ives”....
...Claire Wrathall Akrotiri, Santorini Like practically everyone who goes to Santorini, I knew it had been shaped by a massive volcanic eruption....
...However, the women are currently rethinking their approach after L&Q decided in October to end its involvement....
...I have Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Plant and St Vincent. One I don’t have is Willie Nelson’s – I just went to see him at the Hollywood Bowl....
...I just read Glyn Johns’ Sound Man; he was an engineer on The Rolling Stones’s Exile on Main St and The Beatles’s “Let It Be” – all those heavy sounds of the ’70s....
...by adding its neighbour Ch l’Arrosée, naming the brand-new entity Ch Quintus....
...And it counted two days before I returned under its inching hands to start my journey back to London St Pancras....
...When I ask Mount Anvil, co-developers with L&Q, how they alighted on the name, they do not offer comment....
...It was inspired in part by The Lighthouse – where Robert Pattinson’s absolutely bonkers performance was complemented by a large ’tache sprawling along his lip – and in part by lockdown boredom....
...This is where I like to come after a visit to Tate St Ives, and where I send friends looking for places to stay in Cornwall....
...Images of it appeared on romantic postcards (L’Artillerie de L’Amour) and on postcards the military gave to servicemen to send home from the front....
...“Will l be allowed to have a cleaner, or a driver? I don’t drive a car . . . maybe my stepdaughter will drive....
...Turner’s work in London includes Searcys champagne bar at St Pancras station, the restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery and the Michelin-starred Wild Honey restaurant in St James’s — as well as the...
...The Abbey Library of St Gall, Switzerland The first record of a library being used at the St Gallen Abbey was in 820CE, making this one of the oldest library collections in Europe....
...The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 by Robert Kagan (Knopf) A comprehensive history of America’s rise to global superpower, from would-be neutral player to self-appointed...
...That secretive wine bar, unknown to FT colleagues, near St Paul’s?...
...One upcoming exhibition that promises to be original and inventive is the Musée de l’Orangerie’s Aux sources des Nymphéas: le décor impressionniste opening in March — surely a mouthwatering prospect....
...After living in Sloane Square, widower Robert Norbury decided to buy a flat there in December, primarily for peace of mind....
...The final winning point: I had looked everywhere for an English translation of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, by Robert Musil, in many countries....
...Calvert JumpUniversity of Greenwich Nigel DoddLondon School of Economics and Political Science Felix FitzRoyUniversity of St....
...Los Angeles Opera is launching its online winter season with L'Amant anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) in a new critical edition....
...The paintings include a Furini of St Sebastian and a Liberation of St Peter one might take for a Caravaggio, though in fact it’s the work of another Italian who settled in Malta, Mattia Preti....
....£13 The Real Wine Co Dom de l’Idylle, Vieille Vigne 2019 Savoie 11.5%Light, fresh and just the right side of watery because there is so much delicate fruit, with a hint of alpine flowers....
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