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La Bohme, Royal Opera House, London (17 October 04:50) |
| Almost 35 years on, this production of La Bohème is working as well as ever. The Royal Opera seems happy to keep reviving it and there is little evidence of revivals looking tired or tatty,... |
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Human drama among the gods (17 October 02:35) |
| Apollo, protector of classic dignity in art, is surely the presiding deity for the Mariinsky Ballet. Balanchine's Apollo, made for Diaghilev in 1928, is honoured as the work in which the cho... |
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A writer for troubled times (17 October 02:35) |
| It is 3am in New York but Mohamed El-Erian is not sleeping the contented sleep of a man who, only hours earlier, collected a prestigious prize for his book on world markets. He is up and pre... |
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The White Devil, Menier Chocolate Factory, London (17 October 02:35) |
| The Chocolate Factory is probably best known for its dazzling chamber musical productions (Sunday in the Park with George; Little Shop of Horrors), so unless they had uncovered a hitherto se... |
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StoRMChaser/Loop Collective, Kings Place, London (17 October 02:35) |
| The F-ire Festival's opening night featured a chamber jazz nonet, a piano trio drawn from London's Loop jazz collective and a headlining concert from pianist/composer Django Bates's 19-piece... |
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The Secret Marriage, Theatre Royal, Glasgow (17 October 02:35) |
| At first sight Cimarosa's dramma giocoso seems perfect for a cash-strapped opera company. A six-hander with no chorus, it is cheap to put on. With all the conventions of Mozart but none of t... |
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Macao casinos fall quiet (16 October 09:20) |
| Of all the victims of a downturn in Chinese tourism, Macao stands to lose the most. |
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Sportingbet beats forecasts on strong revenue growth (16 October 03:10) |
| Sportingbet continued its phoenix-like rise from the ashes of the US clampdown on online gambling by beating consensus forecasts with 30 per cent-plus revenue growth in the first two months ... |
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Rusalka, Hackney Empire, London (16 October 02:50) |
| There is no point in being churlish. For all the shortcomings of this production, Dvorák's haunting music had cast its spell by the end and it would be ungenerous to deny audiences outside ... |
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How buy-to-let turned into a mug's game (15 October 11:50) |
| The financial crisis has killed off punterism - grassroots financial opportunism - in the UK as surely as leveraged investment banking. Its most recent incarnation was in a bovine stampede i... |
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Vietnam journalist jailed for graft article (15 October 09:25) |
| A Vietnamese journalist who exposed transport ministry officials embezzling foreign aid to bet on European football matches, was jailed for two years on Wednesday. |
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First-time novelist wins Booker (15 October 06:15) |
| Aravind Adiga, a 33-year-old first-time novelist from India, is the surprise winner of this year's Man Booker £50,000 ($87,000) prize for fiction for his "perfect" book The White Tiger. |
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Pitch battle starts as BT eyes BSkyB's net gains (15 October 02:10) |
| The head of BT's retail division is candid enough to admit he is a customer of British Sky Broadcasting, the satellite television operator. |
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Rapture, Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson (14 October 11:45) |
| Twenty-five years ago in Los Angeles, long before his watershed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the architect Frank Gehry designed an asymmetrical two-level stage for a performance by the Lucin... |
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Alfred Brendel, Royal Festival Hall, London (14 October 11:45) |
| It feels as if we have been saying farewell to Alfred Brendel for years. It was 2004 when he made his last appearance at the BBC Proms, citing a wish for his performances no longer to be hea... |
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Sorry not a word in bankers' vocabulary (14 October 10:45) |
| Perhaps Elton John had it right when he sang, "Sorry seems to be the hardest word". The aphorism certainly seems to hold true when it comes to bankers in the current financial crisis. |
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Online betting battle moves to local court (14 October 09:55) |
| The bitter battle between private betting companies and EU countries that operate state-owned gaming systems took a new twist on Tuesday when a senior adviser at Europe's top court said that... |
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San Francisco Ballet, City Center, New York (14 October 01:00) |
| Opening a New York season with George Balanchine's Divertimento, one of his great ballets, gloriously matched to Mozart's music of the same title in the theatre where the master choreographe... |
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Elbow, Roundhouse, London (14 October 01:00) |
| Like a cup-winning football team on a victory parade, Elbow are celebrating last month's Mercury music prize success with a triumphal UK tour. |
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Disappearing birds expose 'a planet in trouble' (13 October 08:40) |
| As morning breaks over a vast nature reserve in the heart of Buenos Aires, dozens of men and women clutching binoculars and cameras patiently scan the skies. |
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Staff sing from one hymn sheet (13 October 02:05) |
| It's one of the oldest jokes there is, points out Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and chief executive of Sony SNE: "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice." |
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How to improve Eden? (11 October 06:35) |
| Sleaford is how England used to be - or maybe just the way some like to imagine it. The drive into the Lincolnshire town passes mock-Tudor houses and neat bungalows set back from tidy verges... |
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Restaurant review: LaSalle Restaurant, Zurich (11 October 06:50) |
| Ten minutes' tram ride from Zurich's city centre, Zurich West is an old industrial quarter. Once dotted with the empty husks of factories, the area is being transformed into galleries, shops... |
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A museum of one's own (11 October 06:45) |
| In a climate where the richest collectors - Charles Saatchi, Roman Abramovich - are as celebrated as the artists they buy, we tend to forget that in the history of arts patronage, entreprene... |
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The stuff of people's prayers and dreams (11 October 06:45) |
| Charles Saatchi's inaugural exhibition at his new gallery in Chelsea, The Revolution Continues, is the most persuasive showing of contemporary Chinese art yet mounted in this country and als... |
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My favourite things (11 October 06:40) |
| Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Mexico-born, Canada-based electronic artist, has an installation at the Barbican Art Gallery until January 18, and another in Trafalgar Square from November 14 to 23.... |
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Partenope, Coliseum, London (11 October 06:35) |
| Love is a battle. It causes no end of conflict, torture, rage, hate. Its weapons work like poisoned darts. It unsettles everything. |
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'Sale' signs go up at Premier League clubs (11 October 04:05) |
| Are Premier League football clubs becoming a luxury plaything too far for football's wealthiest fans? |
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London Film Festival (11 October 02:35) |
| It is back: an event so rich, so teeming, so packed with action, passion and reflection that you are caught between wanting to attend each of the 300-plus feature films and shorts and wantin... |
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Caricaturist who illustrated Stalin's whims (11 October 12:35) |
| Boris Yefimov survived 108 years because Joseph Stalin thought him useful. The logic of the Stalin years meant that he should certainly have been killed: Trotsky, whom Stalin had cast as the... |
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Wags lyrical (11 October 12:30) |
| It's strange to think that "Wag" - the acronym for footballers' wives and girlfriends - entered the Oxford English Dictionary only last year. Already Wags seem as traditionally English a con... |
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King of the hill (11 October 12:30) |
| The financial fettle of boxing has always depended on the ability of fighters such as Muhammad Ali and Oscar De La Hoya to attract crossover fans - the sports fan who may not be overly inter... |
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F1 slams the brakes on big spending (10 October 10:45) |
| Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix looks likely to set up a thrilling climax to this year's Formula One championship but, off the track, the sport has gone into reverse gear as the global economy ... |
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Touched by wings of love (10 October 01:10) |
| The Royal Ballet season began on Saturday night with Swan Lake. This fragment of the True Cross has been in the company repertory since 1934, when the presence of the sublime Alicia Markova ... |
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Indebted clubs face Uefa ban (09 October 04:05) |
| Heavily indebted football clubs face being banned from European competitions to deter them from borrowing their way to success, under new plans being drawn up by Uefa, European football's go... |
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Christian Gerhaher, Wigmore Hall, London (09 October 02:50) |
| In the world of chamber music it is a special attraction when two leading performers from different disciplines come together. Give-and-take is what this corner of classical music is all abo... |
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Of Thee I Sing, Grand Theatre, Leeds (09 October 02:50) |
| There is one good reason why opera companies shouldn't do operettas and musicals: they are not equipped for the style. And one good reason why they should: we wouldn't otherwise hear them. O... |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes, Repertory Theatre, Dundee (08 October 10:50) |
| During its creation throughout the late 1950s and at the turn of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes was a piecemeal work. Originally conceived of as a film project for... |
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Casino economy 'wrecking' stewardship (08 October 09:45) |
| A lack of long-term stewardship by company heads and shareholders is at the heart of the current financial crisis, an influential think-tank says in a report published on Wednesday. |
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Kenya deports Obama book author (08 October 01:50) |
| The American author of an inflammatory book about Barack Obama was being deported from Kenya last night to prevent him from launching his work in the home country of the presidential candida... |
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Valley view: Serious games poised to take off (07 October 02:25) |
| The California Academy of Sciences, just opened in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, is a $488m marvel of architectural ambition, environmental awareness and the natural world. |
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Poland backs down in Fifa stand-off (07 October 03:25) |
| Poland's government on Monday backed down in its face-off with Fifa, the governing body of world football, agreeing to withdraw a temporary administrator who had taken control of the nationa... |
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A foolish race to the bottom (07 October 03:00) |
| "Mabel sweats when she is making jam." This terse and disapproving diary entry, describing the work being done by a domestic servant, was made by the English writer Virginia Woolf. It feels ... |
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BMW's accelerator of change (06 October 03:20) |
| Norbert Reithofer's office atop BMW's 99.5 metre-high, engine-like tower - dubbed the "four cylinders" - offers a bird's-eye view of a peculiar, bowl-shaped building. It houses BMW's lavishl... |
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Rapid response service for changing times (06 October 01:25) |
| Do a Google GOOG search on Andy Tunningley, and there are more results relating to his semi-professional rugby career than his years in investment consultancy, despite his high profile role ... |
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Macao's casinos hit by share slide (06 October 12:30) |
| Concerns about the ability of Macao casino operators to raise funds for projects and China's efforts to cool the city's gaming market have caused a run on their stocks. |
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Gambling industry holds weak hand as downturn bites (06 October 12:20) |
| When a man like Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest in America, has to pour $475m of his family's money into his casino empire to tide things over, it is time for the gambling industry to wo... |
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Richard Alston, Sadler's Wells, London (05 October 11:55) |
| Forty years ago Richard Alston made his first choreography - marked, I recall, by a clarity that still informs his work. He was an early student of the London Contemporary Dance School, and ... |
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Classical frame for Saatchi's brand-new look (05 October 11:55) |
| It feels strange to enter a gallery of contemporary art beneath a massive classical portico. Yet there is a kind of inevitability in Charles Saatchi's journey from abandoned factory to class... |
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Museums without walls (04 October 06:40) |
| Warhol in Walsall. Sculptor Ron Mueck in Aberdeen. The great American photographer Diane Arbus in Wales. Video artist Bill Viola in the Shetland Islands. The father of installation, Joseph B... |
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