Hints and tips:
...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....
...Be aware that Hipermestra is not like that, and certainly not here in Graham Vick’s production....
...In 1991, shortly after taking responsibility for the Mariinsky, he engaged a gay director, Graham Vick, to stage Prokofiev’s mighty War and Peace....
...The film also featured an early appearance by Eddie Murphy’s street poet Tyrone Green (“C-I-L-L my landlord”)....
...He’d become a semi-disillusioned believer in the gospel of L. Ron Hubbard and the pseudo-psychiatry of Dianetics....
...One, who may or may not be exercising self-deprecation, is holding up a sign saying “J-E-T-S can S-P-E-L-L”. The stage is overhung with a digital clock and flanked by screens and banks of speakers....
...Since Graham Vick’s departure in 2000 there has been no director of productions. Last year’s widely derided staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion bombed at the box-office....
...People from around Antrim, Down, Tyrone and Fermanagh. Teachers especially, wanted to live here, then.”...
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