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...Forsythe’s Blake Works series, inspired by the musician James Blake, has also had its fair share of developments: Just last month, La Scala Ballet unveiled Blake Works V, a new variation....
...Jonathan Anderson chopped out V-shaped peepholes on fleshy chests and based many of his clothes on “the mundane object” — weird moulded shoes designed to recall the claw feet of Georgian furniture, wide...
...Dropping the first act was Verdi’s idea, implemented when he revised the long opera, first given at the Paris Opera in 1867, for performances at La Scala in 1884....
...They launched with The Henrys, a 9-hour marathon of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V, which mixed modern, medieval and Edwardian costumes....
...A Museum, London; Scala, Florence/Heritage Images...
...The same challenge marks her La Scala debut in January, and in June she impersonates Tytania in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in Valencia....
...and Chief Executive, Oper Frankfurt Stéphane Lissner Director, Paris National Opera Charles MacKay General Director, The Santa Fe Opera Joan Matabosch Artistic Director, Teatro Real, Madrid Joseph V...
...Juan Diego Florez’s note-perfect Giacomo V and Colin Lee’s expressive Rodrigo canter through their freakishly athletic arias....
...This year’s highlight promises to be performances of Rigoletto (August 6 and 8) with the starry Hungarian soprano Andrea Rost, whose career has taken her from the Operaház to the Paris Opéra, La Scala, Covent...
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...And the race itself – well, it’s like watching a Test match at Lords (which I’ve done) or attending an opera at La Scala (which I haven’t). Everyone should do it at least once....
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