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...A: A gas bill (sent to his mother Violetta Prigozhina). Quote time....
...“Would even one Putin supporter go to a protest for him if they knew they’d get beaten with batons and thrown in jail or given kilometre-long fines? No....
...“If they wanted to get rid of me, they’d do it without a second thought. This was a show for other people, to show locals what political repression is like....
...“We’d bought pasta, we’d bought jars of tomatoes, we’d bought wild oregano, so we thought, let’s have a little shop....
...We’d rather take money out of our own budget than our dogs.”...
...I’d turn from the screen back to the page, revisiting forgotten books, or discovering new authors like Missiroli....
...This year I’d love to buy myself a puppy, an XL English bulldog.”...
...Most afternoons the students, or musicians visiting La Scala, give concerts in the Sala d’Onore, which is lined with paintings of composers and includes an ornate organ and a grand piano....
...His sister, Violetta, who died in 2000 — another funeral he missed. His brothers and their children and their children’s children. Lives lived while he was locked up....
...If I’m not painting I’d like to be shopping. In what place are you happiest? In my studio. What ambitions do you still have? I’d like to have a retrospective before I die. What drives you on?...
...From Western Australia, La Violetta’s Riesling aged, most unusually, in oak was labelled in powerful Teutonic lettering Das Sakrileg....
...I’d happily live in that outfit all week.”...
...I’m here every summer, at least once,” says Violetta Winkworth-Gruosi, co-founder of GiftVault, the luxury gift specialists....
...Violetta cues the conductor before starting a big number and the chorus members vie for our attention....
...Her Violetta in English National Opera’s La traviata sank beneath a poor production – “I’d love to do the role again in Italian” – and her divorce in 2007 left her juggling the responsibilities of a single...
...And after her Zerlina came her first Violetta in 1994 and her first Tosca in 1996. Next June, she will reprise La bohème at Covent Garden opposite Alagna....
...hot-shot trader Bud Fox sings along to the swaggering party aria from Rigoletto against a backdrop of 1980s excess; in Pretty Woman (1990), Julia Roberts’s Hollywood hooker is charmed by the courtesan Violetta...
...Renee Fleming sang the role of Violetta in 2009; Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho is Eyre’s new “fallen woman”....
...The bass-baritone Ildebrando d’Arcangelo is the Turkish prince of the title and the soprano Aleksandra Kurzak is Fiorilla, the flighty wife of Don Geronio (Alessandro Corbelli)....
...vocal and physical effort, for which neither Paul Groves’s alert Admète nor Kenneth Montgomery’s stylish conducting could offer much compensation. ★★☆☆☆ Stephen Lawless’s staging of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’...
...Clear, gripping and frightening. ………………………………………………… Art Compiled by Jackie Wullschlager Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917 , by Stephanie D’Allesandro and John Elderfield, Yale RRP£45 Beautiful and...
...The last time we did this, a few weeks back, we were basking in a heatwave, and 11,000 people crushed in to Trafalgar Square to see Renée Fleming as an outstanding Violetta in Traviata....
...On Monday we could take great comfort in Anja Harteros as Violetta. The German soprano (pictured with Massimo Giordano) may not command natural italianità....
...Hoffmann), as Leporello to Cesare Siepi’s Don Giovanni, or as Dr Grenvil to Montserrat Caballé’s Violetta (La traviata)....
...(a) Arundhati Roy(b) Vikram Seth(c) Kiran Desai(d) Aravind Adiga 30....
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