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Opera Forward Festival takes on Shell and Antigone in Amsterdam
...It has a hectoring, agitprop feel to it, capped off by a burning house (hello, Greta) and, finally, a massive children’s choir....
March 18, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
Notes from a small vegetable garden
...I never remember seeing it on a menu in Cyprus. All it needs, she explains, is an onion, finely sliced, a carton of yoghurt (how big a carton?)...
April 20, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewMusic
Bavarian State Opera’s Die Passagierin — radically revised Holocaust opera is lean and powerful
...She survived Auschwitz, and her play, which went on to become a television drama, a feature film, a novel and an opera, is an examination of her experiences there....
March 12, 2024
Disrupted Times
Electric cars switch out of fast lane
...Millions of US workers are caught by onerous non-compete clauses, preventing them from working for a rival or setting up a competing business for a period of time after they leave a job....
April 22, 2024
ReviewMusic
Die Jüdin von Toledo at Semperoper Dresden is a dazzling but difficult opera — review
...A huge orchestra, a top-drawer cast, a high-carat stage director and a fine conductor — what’s not to love? Glanert, who has already penned a dozen operas, knows what he is doing....
February 12, 2024
ReviewMusic
Rusalka, Staatsoper Berlin — eels and out-of-sync singing sink new production
...His staging for the Staatsoper had the titular water-nymph as a disaffected young woman from a Berlin houseshare, whose lust for the rich boy upstairs causes her to mutate into a kind of distended earwig...
February 6, 2024
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
Robin Lane Fox
Spring has been fast, slow and grim for gardeners — but glorious too
...You will have been having other flowery surprises in this spring’s fast lane....
April 26, 2024
ReviewMusic
Der goldene Hahn at the Komische Oper Berlin, review — what did we just watch?
...Rufus Didwiszus’s sets and Victoria Behr’s costumes present us with a kind of dismal high camp on the tundra — Dodon’s kingdom is nothing but a patch of dry scrub, with a dead tree for the titular golden...
January 30, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
Easter is a good time to resurrect your garden
...At Easter they are a joy, especially on shaded banks in country lanes. However, they will be over in a week’s time, long before the season when Adams imagined his rabbits migrating in the early 1970s....
March 29, 2024
ReviewMusic
A weighty yet exhilarating New Year’s Eve concert from the Berliner Philharmoniker
...Petrenko used the considerable force of a Berliner Philharmoniker on top form as a narrator, drawing us into a completely theatrical experience....
January 2, 2024
Gardens
Anticipation is part of the art of gardening
...At €13 per 100, it is a bargain of a fine yellow ixia....
April 12, 2024
InterviewMusic
Conductor Elim Chan: ‘Hong Kong is special. It’s like the hardware is Chinese, but the software is British’
...But even for those born with perfect pitch and a photographic memory, there are no shortcuts. As a pianist, a choral singer, and later a cellist and orchestral player, Chan had a good start....
January 16, 2024
ReviewMusic
Silver balls, rippling water and sniggers in The Timeless Moment at the Staatsoper Berlin — review
...After some time, a girl dressed as a beekeeper enters, carrying a fishing net which she uses as a stick to tap her way through the set....
January 8, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
Why I am blown away by windflowers
...De Caen anemones would only be a dream in a hedgerow, but they look far better in a pot on a balcony or terrace, placed in sun....
March 22, 2024
ReviewMusic
Mary, Queen of Scots, Oper Leipzig — medieval monarch gets steampunk makeover
...Surely, if there was a way to be a woman without playing either a wench or a man, Mary embodied it. Not here. What a lost opportunity. ★★★☆☆ To February 11, oper-leipzig.de...
December 19, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Robin Lane Fox
An English garden that is a tribute to transient beauty
...Its central garden is at Wisley, Surrey, on a site whose soil and climate are not a gardener’s godsend....
April 5, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
Lessons from the doyenne of Dutch bulbs
...Her solution was a scheme of about 120,000 bulbs, again planted in mixed groups which she made up one at a time by tipping different varieties into a wheelbarrow....
March 15, 2024
ReviewMusic
Operatic miniatures in Berlin are innovative takes on chamber music
...It is a skill set. This was the instant when the evening became more than a chamber music concert....
November 28, 2023
Robin Lane Fox
Get to know orchids beyond the supermarket shelf
...I admired a natural Dendrobium hybrid whose white flowers have a smart orange-yellow splash. A great rarity, it cannot be found in supermarkets....
February 23, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
Pesellino’s floral triumphs
...David was a symbol of freedom for Florentines, already patronised by the Medici. Cleaning has revealed that a young man is extending a welcome, not a ring, to a young lady by walled Jerusalem....
January 12, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
The horticultural marvels of a Mediterranean spring
...It was not a pointed head, as many have misunderstood, but a rounded bald head like a sea squill’s big rounded bulb....
March 8, 2024
ReviewMusic
Five stars for Staatsoper Hamburg’s thrilling, disturbing Salome — review
...Salome instead gives a short punk performance and then strips with a matter-of-fact innocence, like a child at a medical examination, to her underwear....
October 31, 2023
Robin Lane Fox
How to choose a colour scheme for your garden
...Colour is an essential dimension of a flower garden. It enhances the mood and draws the garden, part or whole, into a unity....
February 9, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
Six essential plants for the beginning gardener
...Rosi Klose is smaller and bears pink flowers very prettily three times a year. Bach is a paler pink with glossy leaves which colour to a handsome red in winter. What about a shrub?...
March 1, 2024
Robin Lane Fox
It may be midwinter but summer gardening starts here
...Even I regard outdoor gardening as a lost cause when a British January throws this combination at it....
February 2, 2024

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