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...There was the highly fragrant Rosa rugosa “Roseraie de L’Haÿ” and wine-coloured species peonies, their flowers like tea bowls....
...Perhaps unsurprisingly for a former French prime minister, Dominique de Villepin lives in a fabulously appointed apartment on a smart street near the Place de l’Etoile in Paris....
...The latest, L’Heure Exquise, marks the 40th anniversary of her Covent Garden debut. The 70-minute piece was created by Maurice Béjart for the then 62-year-old La Scala legend Carla Fracci in 1998....
...If only opera could always be this much fun. ★★★★★ By contrast, Romeo Castellucci’s Resurrection, a staging of Mahler’s second symphony, is a gut-wrenchingly sober affair....
...K.L. Kettle has gone down the dystopian route with The Boy I Am (Little Tiger, £7.99), flinging the reader instantly into an environment of confusing strangeness and harsh coercion....
...‘We believe and suffer with Baryshnikov’ Romeo and Juliet, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London (October 24 1975) “At every moment we believe and suffer with [Mikhail Baryshnikov]....
...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....
...I know my way around a P&L, though when I gave up life in the boardroom to become a full-time comic and public speaker the one commodity I didn’t anticipate running out of was the public....
...of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet was as captivating for its audacious bendy brilliance as for its bathetic domestic backdrops....
...Lockdown has been a little bit like Romeo and Juliet. Entering another family’s house is a contentious issue....
...The season’s other outstanding Mercutio has been Marcelino Sambé, who fast-forwards the Tybalt-baiting ballroom solo and manages a tour en l’air mid-thrust in the fateful Act II swordfight....
...His career at La Scala began in 1953, designing sets and costumes for Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri....
...For the architect behind the interiors of high-end hotels, such as the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok and several suites at The Berkeley in London, as well as L’Appartement Louis Vuitton in Hong Kong, presenting...
...From €34; lamy.com The grooming staple I’m never without is Diptyque’s L’Ombre dans l’Eau....
...“A modern Saturn, that is to say a Saturn who has become a captain of industry, continues to devour his own sons,” wrote L’Osservatore Romano after Musso’s death....
...When Gerwig was writing her pink-haired rebel, she imagined all the movies Lady Bird would have cherished: “Romeo + Juliet, 10 Things I Hate About You, Clueless . . . lots of Clueless.”...
...That his parents were so devastated by the discovery of their love affair that young Emmanuel was banished to Paris (like a star-crossed Romeo) but still returned home each weekend to pursue his amoureuse...
...Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet felt unusually brooding and portentous. Prokofiev’s Symphony No.5 was confidently played in a trenchant performance....
...It was followed by the vapid Scène d’Amour, a duet set to Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette danced on Wednesday by Lorena Justribó Manion and Ygal Tsur, who expressed their star-crossed love with a display of...
...could qualify as the jazz version of Romeo and Juliette....
...London in 1965 saw Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, a Bolshoi visit and starry performances by the Royal Ballet touring company. You name it: Alston was there....
...The work that Tiempo had selected to characterise himself was “Reflets dans l’eau” from Debussy’s Images....
...A field outside Verona, the picturesque northern Italian city famous for its star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, has become the backdrop for a modern day political feud in the run up to this month’s European...
...Thank you to all who entered our Quiz of the Year in the December 28 edition of Life & Arts and congratulations to Richard Hadley, of L’Etang-la-Ville in France, who, as the first correct entry drawn, wins...
...Ticciati’s grasp of the music’s romantic bloom is one of this disc’s attractions, not least in the substantial (and purely orchestral) love scene from Roméo et Juliette....
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