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...formula is working. Offering tickets from as low as $15, the ENO balances popular appeal with innovation. It is best known for singing foreign operas in English and setting classics in the more recent past - last season saw Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème staged in the fragile interwar period of 1930s Paris. But while other European opera houses experiment with extreme directorial conceits - Germany's Komische Oper recently performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in an S&M torture chamber - the ENO has found a way to make old favorites feel revitalized rather than remade. "We have...
Artisanal manufacturer Bohême in Lubin, France www.boheme.fr - until now something of a connoisseur's secret - is taking its handsome, handcrafted skis global. Each pair (around $2,000) requires an average of 37 hours to construct: space-age materials are sandwiched to a beech and poplar core, then finished with a thin layer of one of 11 different wooden claddings, including walnut, ebony and rosewood. Thick edges help these beauties carve a precise track down any mountainside...
Compared to the sleek Bohêmes, the Skate Banana (around $600; www.lib-tech.com) seems rough around the edges - but that's the point. Lib-Tech, a U.S.-based design company, last year introduced what it calls "magnetraction technology" - edges that are serrated like a bread knife - and has combined it with a body curved to slide over powder and crud. The result is a snowboard that grips when you need it to and otherwise slips over everything like, yes, a banana peel. A stiffened tip and tail increase stability off big landings in the terrain park, which is where...
...business tales of being in the right place at the right time when in 1965 he stepped in alongside Joan Sutherland on the stage of the Miami-Dade County Auditorium when the scheduled tenor fell ill. Just three months later, he debuted at Milan's La Scala in La Bohème - and never looked back. His fame multiplied with major televised performances in the 1970s and 1980s, and eventually his teaming up with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras to form the Three Tenors...
...among the branches of a huge, old oak tree in the middle of Västerås' Central Park. Guests climb up a 13-m ladder to reach the hotel's only room-and that's where they stay, because the ladder is then removed. Choose between a "bohème service," which means you bring your own food and bed linen, or the more comfortable deluxe option, where meals and blankets are hoisted up to you in a basket. There's a kitchen, bedroom, veranda with a hammock and-rest assured-a toilet...