ANNA: Biography, by Amy Odell The protagonist cries in the first pages of “Anna,” a semi-authoritative biography of Vogue editor Anna Wintour. It’s November 9, 2016, the morning after his old friend Donald J. Trump’s election to the presidency, and Wintour speaks at a hastily arranged all-staff meeting. During the review against Women’s Everyday Wear …
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I got a call from the Metropolitan Opera one afternoon in early March. Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska was in Poland to buy a concert dress before a performance. His phone rang, and it was Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager. He was outspoken: His company was in trouble. Ukraine had recently been occupied and the …
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Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko, whose international career collapsed after the invasion of Ukraine due to her support for Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in the past, was invited to sing at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monaco this month. Ms. Netrebko was originally scheduled to sing the lead role of Puccini “Turandot” at the Metropolitan …
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ATOMIC MOTHERby Rachel Barenbaum Timing is everything, or so they say. In the case of Rachel Barenbaum’s new novel “Atomic Anna” – Beginning on April 26, 1986, with Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4 disintegrating, releasing “the most dangerous substances known to man” – timing is literally everything: The blast marks Anna Berkova, the chief engineer of …
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Anna Netrebko, Russian diva with an international career fell apart after that Russia invaded Ukraine Due to her past support for Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, she tried to distance herself from him, saying they had only met a few times on Wednesday. Since the war began, the performances of Miss Netrebko at the Metropolitan …
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ANTIQUES, By Cynthia Ozick. (Vintage, 272 p., $16.) Times critic Dwight Garner noted that while this collection of five stories may be a minor addition to Ozick’s voluminous work, it is “richly patterned and strongly coloured.” The title story, a novel set in 1949, follows a retired lawyer as he joins six other semi-elite old …
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Superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko will not appear at the Metropolitan Opera this season or next, as she failed to comply with the company’s request to distance herself from Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, with whom she is waging war on Ukraine. The end of Netrebko’s engagements, the Met announced on Thursday, comes after the …
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Anna Shcherbakova, the last Russian teenager to enter the competition, did not try to follow Kamila Valieva or Alexandra Trusova with a triple axel attempt. But his more modest program – powerful, hypnotic turns, a triple hit, a sequence of steps, etc. including – it was a compelling showcase of his talent, which led him …
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release “Inventing AnnaA nine-episode Netflix series created by Shonda Rhimes, ”, brought the Anna Sorokin case back to the fore. Ms. Sorokin, 31, lived for several years in the 2010s as Anna Delvey, a wealthy German heiress to her own invention, and persuaded Manhattan elites to finance their fine dining and travel. Ms. Sorokin was …
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Sometimes the outfits were not processed by Rikers in time for the court. fashion crises one day delayed court proceedings for almost an hour and a half because he refused sub-par substitutions. once i noticed a suitcase in the courtroom whose wardrobe is full of rejectsincluding long-sleeved and collared shirts, a light blue sleeveless dress …
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The serial scam that made Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey famous, Published in New York magazine In May 2018, she succeeded because of what she didn’t have. Despite the extensive reporting by its author, Jessica Pressler, the most striking thing about it was a sense of obscurity. The portrayal of the habits of some mercenary …
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Working with cinematographer Gogò Bianchi and production designer Mauro Vanzati, Ammaniti transforms Sicily from a child’s point of view into an abandoned wonderland: a mixture of carnival, fantasy, and endless garbage. “Anna” evokes a fantastic tradition from Fellini to Italian cinema. Paolo Sorrentino, while sticking to its realistic and sometimes sad and rather violent action. …
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