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OPERA
1.
DIVAS AND SUPERSTARS: BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
MEET THE NEWEST WORLD OPERA SUPER
SENSATION: DIVA ALISON ENGLAND. She is
larger than life. And her voice is an explosion and implosion of mesmerizing
vocal virtuosity and joyful drama. A living
legend with a big heart and immense talent. Meet the American princess of
world opera who conquered Paris...
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THEATRE./DRAMA:
Adrian Hodges has written some of most
successful dramas. He's no stranger to big budget
adaptations of classics, having written the spectacular dinosaur drama, Yhe
Lost World. Adrian has turned his hand to the works of RD Blackmore with
Lorna Doone and wrote the recent version of Charles Dickens' David
Copperfield (which was produced by Kate Harwood , with Costume Design by Mike
O'Neill, both of whom worked on Charles).
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OPERA:
An opera inspired by the 1995 massacre of Muslims
by Bosnian Serbs at Srebrenica is due to open in Sarajevo. Almost 8,000 men
and boys were executed in Srebrenica, which was a UN-declared safe zone at the
time. The Bosnian National Opera will perform the opera - called Srebrenicanke
(Srebrenica women) - for the first time.
OPERA.
Headliners of the Year:
Le Corsaire at
The Royal Opera House, London.
One
of the most skittish ballets in the Kirov's 19th century repertory - a
burlesque mix of Byron and Ali Baba, wedged together with some cracking
classical dance...Maria
Padilla at The Opera House, Buxton
Elliott
Carter Quartets...Dawn
Upshaw...Los
Angeles Philharmonic...Carmen
at
The New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme...
SCOTTISH OPERA: The praise is ringing from the rooftops of
Edinburgh - Scottish Opera’s Ring Cycle is the triumph of the Festival.
"Bold, deft, vast organic power," wrote one reviewer; "a singularly
powerful moving force," considered another. Yet for all the glory, the
future of the company remains in doubt, after the opera took an effective
cut in its public funding in the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) budget in
this year.
PAVAROTTI: Across a spacious living room that seems to float 23
blue-sky storeys above Central Park South, Luciano Pavarotti is slumped at
his oversized desk like a corpulent Christ. Arms theatrically cantilevered
over high-backed chairs on either side of his frame, his neck and
shoulders draped in a paisley Hermes scarf that complements his lime-green
shirt, he appears hunkered down, a mountain of a man wedged into place.
VOIGHT: Voight Gets 23-Minute Ovation As 'Isolde'Runners in the
Vienna Marathon passed the State Opera House on the Ringstrasse at midday
Sunday. A few hours later, Deborah Voigt had amarathon of her own inside
the house — singing her first staged performance as the heroine of
Wagner's epic "Tristan und Isolde." Sunday night's performance marked a
triumph for the 42-year-old soprano from Illinois, who boosted herself
into the ranks of the finest Wagner interpreters with heft of voice and
beauty of tone throughout the register.
Salvatore Sciarrino: Chamber Music"
Sciarrino: Piano Trio No. 2. Le voci
sottovetro. Tre notturni
brillanti.
Infinito nero.
New
Juilliard Ensemble.
Joel Sachs (conductor). Paul Recital Hall, Juilliard School of Music, New
York City. Presented under the auspices of the Lincoln Center Festival
Violeta
Urmana: She is stronger than destiny. Violeta Urmana is hitting
the high notes, literally. One of the world's most exciting singers - for
whom alone a trip to Covent Garden's La Forza del Destino is worth
the ticket price - she's putting her reputation as one of the world's most
sought-after opera singers on the line. Best known as a dark-toned
mezzo-soprano, she has recently reinvented herself as a bright-toned
soprano soaring to stratospheric heights.
Mazeppa
One of the great pillars of the Mariinsky repertoire, Tchaikovsky’s
soaring Mazeppa depicts the legendary 17th-century Ukrainian separatist in
both his political and romantic exploits. Taking inspiration from
Pushkin’s epic poem Poltava, the opera follows the enigmatic yet aging
military leader Mazeppa as he falls in love with Maria, the young daughter
of Kochubey, a Cossack judge. Denied the judge’s blessing to marry,
Mazeppa and Maria decide to elope, an action that compels Kochubey to
reveal Mazeppa’s secret revolutionary plans—a plot to turn the Ukraine
into an independent state—to Tsar Peter the Great.
GERGIEV:
Valery Gergiev spends about 250 days a year with the Mariinsky Opera and
Ballet. He has been Principal Guest Conductor with the Metropolitan Opera
since 1997, Principal Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (one of his
first openings in the West), and has worked with most of the world’s
leading orchestras. He works increasingly with the Wiener Philharmoniker
and has set up numerous festivals, including Peace to the Caucasus, the
Mikkeli in Finland, The Red Sea in Eilat, The Kirov-Philharmonia in
London, The Rotterdam Philharmonic-Gergiev Festival, and The White Nights
in St. Petersburg.
PARIS
18.FABULOUS TIMES, PLACES AND PEOPLE.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
GAY PARIS IN THE 20s and
30s: Background, People, Places, Personalities, Hospitality,
Restaurants, Food, Wine, Pleasure, Style, Fashion, Arts, Poetry, Music
and Adventure. According to Maximillien de Lafayette. Mon Dieu! To be and live
in Paris during "Les annees folles", between the end of 1917 and 1934,
especially if you were an eccentric artist, an intellectual adventurer,
a frou-frou femme fatale, a genius or an independently wealthy American,
willing to spend a lot of money on arts, dating and women. Ask
Madonna, Paulette Attie, Penelope de Vassy and Louise de
Chambertin. Really "real" America's la crème de la crème was there.
The "real" American high society, the privileged class, the snobs
(Although it was too early for the Americans to know how to be a snob),
les bourgeois, wealth filthy characters, the hustlers with a style, the
scandalous adventurous women, the schmoozer and the cruisers, the
handsome gigolos, the champagne, the caviar, the kisses and the misses,
sex, the drama and all the "chic" pleasures of the era. Hemingway was
here. Paramour Stein too. Why Paris - what made everybody want to come
here and create, and drink, and dance, and paint, and write stories or
invent them? Women? obnoxious, over-cultured and over-sophisticated
Frenchmen? Bubbly champagne? Sinfully good wine? Nice plat de fromage? A
nostalgia? A fantasy? A new social, political and artistic era? A modern
Parisian revolution? Yes! Yes! All of the above!
PHOTOGRAPHY
t1.WOMAN
ARTIST OF THE MONTH:
THE MAGICAL UNIVERSE OF HEATHER CORINA.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. Meet Heather Corina, one of the world's greatest photographers. She creates a
cosmos of one million dimensions and parallel rainbows for those who in their
daring thoughts and intimate theology, search for the beauty of our world,
bodies, sensuality and the tabooed esthetics. A genius, a visionary and simply
a woman who dares to be an Eve. Corina or the femme fatale of world
photography.
1.
Renate Aller: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE
LAFAYETTE.
She photographs
femme fatales, elegant women, the clouds, inexistent people who make you
think, and the infinity of nothingness. You see it in her shots of lyrical and
nostalgic skies, horizons, clouds, seascapes and ultra modern installations.
tPHOTOGRAPHY:
STUDY AND ANALYSIS.
TheShadow of
Intimacy. Bill Brandt came to
London for good at the beginning of April 1934. He wanted to be English, and
really belong to the fairy-tale island. This meant inventing a new identity
for himself, as he turned 30, but also inventing an England that would
satisfy his childhood fantasies.
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BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE YEAR. AMERICA'S BEST
PHOTOGRAPHERS AND STUDIOS.
In the special section
of photography of LA FEMME MAGAZINE EXTRA. THE WEEKEND JOURNAL. You will
have the rare opportunity to view -probably- the most beautiful photos in
the world taken by America's best photographers. Read the article in the WEEKEND JOURNAL.
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NEW YORK'S BEST PHOTOS AND BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF
THE MONTH, BY SHOSHANNA
ROZEN.
144.
PHOTOGRAPHY: NEW YORK'S BEST PHOTOS AND BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE MONTH.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
CONRAD OLIVIER, BEST PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, by MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE.
If you manage to freeze time and bring it back to life in your camera, you
become a magician- photographer. If you succeed in conversing with nature and
unfold its secrets through lights, shadows and forbidden thoughts, using a
camera and its eloquent silence, you walk through immortality and cross the
bridge of human banality. For photography is a divine art, and the
photographer who captures the hidden and the secret, the holy and the damned,
the fragile whispers of time and the unseen is the parallel definition of an
immortal artist. Conrad Olivier is that kind of photographer.P.198
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POLITICS
POLITICAL FACES: WORLD
ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL’S ERICA SODERHOLM LIST OF AMERICA’S CARTOONS
CELEBRITIES AND CHARACTERS.
47.
SECRETS:
THE SECRET LIST OF THE NAMES OF AMERICAN SENIOR POLITICIANS AND LEADERS ALONG
WITH THEIR SECRET NAME CODE.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE
POWER AND FORTUNE
.1.The
world's richest women: The Billionaires.
Marilyn
Carlson. She runs one of the biggest privately held companies in America,
Carlson Companies, which she took over as chairman and chief executive when
her father, founder Curt Carlson died in 1999. Marilyn, 61, and her sister
Barbara Carlson Gage each own half of the $31 billion (2000 sales) company. As
a marketing, travel and hospitality company, Carlson has been hit by the
economic downturn and Sept. 11 terror attacks...
SOCIETY AND LIFESTYLE: Hottest
and Most Talented Women of the Year.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. We will always talk about the famous and the rich. Wealth and money are
status symbol. When you have money, people think that you know. When you
lose your assets, social power and position, you become yesterday’s
news. You might get lucky and be remembered here and there, but you are
no more a headliner. You become like Australia. Everybody talks about
Australia but nobody wants to visit Australia.
CELEBRITIES AND MONEY.
TOP 100
CELEBRITIES MAKING MONEY. Read it at:
http://www.worldartcelebrities.com/top_100_celebrities_making_money.htm
TOP TEN
CELEBRITIES MAKING MULTIMILLIONS. Read it at:
http://www.worldartcelebrities.com/top_ten_celebrities_making_money.htm
NEWSMAKERS AND HEADLINERS OF THE YEAR.
Robert Redford, Souad Massi, Rene
Zellweger, Shania and many more...
38.
TOP 100 CELEBRITIES MAKING MONEY.
39.
TOP TEN CELEBRITIES MAKING MULTIMILLIONS.
279. POWER: USA MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN BUSINESS.