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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... ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

147. THEATRE./DRAMA: Adrian Hodges has written some of most successful dramas. He's no stranger to big budget Bosnian actors performing during the main rehearsal of the Srebrenica Women opera at the Bosnian National Theatre 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). ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

148. 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. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

Violetta Urmana 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...Macbeth, Violetta Urmana... Pappano, Pacido Domingo... Der Ring des Nibelungen: Tim Albery's ...Maria Padilla at The Opera House, Buxton ...Richard Armstrong ...Sarah Connolly...WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

Elliott Carter Quartets...Dawn Upshaw...Los Angeles Philharmonic...Carmen at The New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme... WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

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. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

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. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

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. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

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 . WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

Debus Annette Stricker 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. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

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. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

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. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

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! WORLD HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE

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. LA FEMME MAGAZINE

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. LA FEMME MAGAZINE

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. LA FEMME MAGAZINE

t 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. LA FEMME MAGAZINE

19. NEW YORK'S BEST PHOTOS AND BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE MONTH, BY SHOSHANNA ROZEN. WORLD HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE

144. PHOTOGRAPHY: NEW YORK'S BEST PHOTOS AND BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE MONTH. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

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 - 208 STARS ILLUSTRATED

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... LA FEMME MAGAZINE

SOCIETY AND LIFES TYLE: 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. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

CELEBRITIES AND MONEY. TOP 100 CELEBRITIES MAKING MONEY. Read it at: http://www.worldartcelebrities.com/top_100_celebrities_making_money.htm WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

TOP TEN CELEBRITIES MAKING MULTIMILLIONS. Read it at: http://www.worldartcelebrities.com/top_ten_celebrities_making_money.htm WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

NEWSMAKERS AND HEADLINERS OF THE YEAR. Robert Redford, Souad Massi, Rene Zellweger, Shania and many more...WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

38. TOP 100 CELEBRITIES MAKING MONEY. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

39. TOP TEN CELEBRITIES MAKING MULTIMILLIONS. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

279. POWER: USA MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN BUSINESS. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE