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...Tullio Serafin led the work’s premiere at the Milan house in 1913, winning the local audience’s favour, while the towering Victor de Sabata conducted a production two decades later....
...Creativity flowed in every way; Hugo’s writing at Hauteville House included novels Les Travailleurs de la Mer [Toilers of the Sea] and L’Homme Qui Rit [The Man Who Laughs], and poetry....
...This was inspired by the performances of the experimental theatre group Taiwan Walker. “It’s all from my memories,” he says....
...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
...The Berlin-born artist and curator read the tales of Victor Hugo and pored over street photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson, eventually arriving in the city to study in 1993; to this day, she takes every...
...In the restaurant is Justin Cogley, who won Best New Chef laurels from Food & Wine, American’s culinary bible, for his delicious work at Aubergine, the restaurant in Fink’s other hotel, L’Auberge Carmel....
...In the Fourth of July scene, the arrangement of young bodies on the riverbank soon gels into a mash-up of Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and Seurat’s “Île de la Grande Jatte”....
...Its first classic winner was Known Fact, victor in 1980’s 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket; Dancing Brave won a host of trophies including the 1986 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe; and then came Frankel, now arguably...
...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...This sordid affair closed a chapter on Monday, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill and Owen Walker report, after UBS settled with Mozambique....
...Monet: The Restless Vision’ will be published by Penguin on October 12 Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend Letter in response to this article: Making a bad impression / From R Victor...
...(The FT’s Owen Walker live tweeted the event.) CS’s shares were once nearly SFr80 each, Daniel Engler, one shareholder noted. “The price of a chateaubriand.”...
...The sale still had some high points, notably for the Romanian painter Victor Man whose “Weltinnenraum” (“World Within”, 2017), a haunting image of his pregnant girlfriend, soared above its £150,000 high...
...Things I enjoyed this week Laura Noonan and Owen Walker wrote an engaging FT Magazine piece on UBS chair Colm Kelleher....
...Whoever emerges as victor, I’ll have plenty to say in this space over the next few days....
...Additional reporting by Tom Wilson, Owen Walker and Peter Campbell...
...Everywhere Grant’s style is visible — simplified forms, flat planes, bold colours — whether in two statuesque naked women holding a trompe l’oeil mirror above the fireplace or an acrobat on a door panel...
...“The EU needs the energy co-operation of the Gulf states,” he told the newspaper l’Opinion....
...Letter in response to this article: A victory lap for the Blue Team, not an objective analysis / From Victor Sandor, Belmont, MA, US...
...Luke Walker, the designer and founder of fashion label LEJ, says he grew a moustache as soon as he could, although he can’t recall what prompted it....
...L’état, c’est moi’ The personalisation of postwar French politics can be traced back to the domineering de Gaulle, who oversaw the creation of the system that has endowed the president with substantial...
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...There are novel South American touches of bossa nova and calypso as well on the optimistic “L’Espoir” and the vengeful “Ciao Bello”, their rhythms driven by cajón and shakers....
...Meanwhile, Lasry’s compositions lure the listener with tantalising rhythms and an ingenious synthesis of musical styles infused with ’70s pop, memories of cinematic scores and echoes of Scott Walker....
...“We are busy all the time,” says manager Nathan Walker-Unwin. “The demand for this kind of place is amazing.”...
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