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Pianist Riad Mammadov releases an album recorded at the Pushkin Museum in April 2023
My friend, the pianist and composer Riad Mammadov, has released a new album of academic repertoire and his own compositions, recorded during a solo concert in the Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum in April 2023. The programme of the recital, and of the album, is made up of works
Society · People · Pop Culture
Nadine Bulycheva frees enslaved women at her Rio de Janeiro benefit on 10 August 1886
The name of Nadezhda Vasilyevna Bulycheva (1858-1921), an Italian opera singer of Russian origin, is inscribed for ever in letters of gold on the pages of the world history of the struggle to abolish slavery. On 10 August 1886 the Russian prima donna Nadine Bulycheva was singing the part
Cinema · Paris · Pop Culture
Robert Altman's “Prêt-à-Porter” of 1994, the seventeenth film of Loren and Mastroianni
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in Robert Altman's 1994 film Prêt-à-Porter, or Ready to Wear, about the backstage world of fashion shows, featuring the leading celebrities of the day and a great many witty cameos. This is the 17th joint film for the legendary duo of
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The Morning Begins with Vintage Tulle and Peacocks, from Which the Shirts in the New WOS Collection Are Made
Mores · Pop Culture · Society Pages
Timofey Andriyashenko proposed to Nicoletta Manni on the stage of the Arena di Verona
Timofei Andriyashenko and Nicoletta Manni are called the most beautiful couple in Italian ballet. He is a principal dancer of the La Scala ballet, she is a prima ballerina of La Scala. He proposed to her on the stage of the ancient Roman amphitheatre, the Arena di Verona, after a
Books · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
A Lucky Day Is When You Find the Long-Lost Spine of Volume One Inside Volume Two
Once again I am persuaded that Luna Lovegood was right: what we lose will surely come back to us, though not always in the way we expect
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It turns out that Camilla Parker Bowles has long been friends with Judi Dench, for many years, so they say
It turns out that Camilla Parker Bowles has long been friends with Judi Dench, for many years, so they say. But now that she has become queen, it is of course all the more striking. And so Dame Judi Dench's coolest friend is, after all, no longer Maggie
Art · Observations · Pop Culture
So far my absolute favourite piece by Ulyana Sergeenko: a jewelled clutch in the shape of a tennis racket, set with stones and enamel, from the spring-summer 2022 couture collection, whose heroine evoked the composite image of the Muscovite Zosya…
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Jean-Paul Gaultier's costumes from Luc Besson's The Fifth Element at the Paris Fashion Museum, in the Expo1997 retrospective, open until 17 July
Coming Up · Observations · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
Young pianists to perform Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Schubert in 26 Pianissimo concerts
From 1 July to 26 August the Hermitage, GES-2 and the Pakgauzy in Nizhny Novgorod host the Pianissimo summer festival. Twenty-six concerts in which works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Schubert will be performed by talented young pianists who, in keeping with good tradition, stand at the
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