Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Easier but wrong. Because, as strange as the notion may seem to those who view opera as Dr. Johnson's "exotic and irrational entertainment," art matters. It matters in Czechoslovakia, where a playwright has become President; in East Germany, where a Leipzig conductor, Kurt Masur, was a spiritual leader of...
Whether Berge fired Barenboim because the Bastille boss is a power-hungry egomaniac or a brilliant visionary who has entrusted the future of one of Europe's august cultural institutions to a young man for whom music is still an art and not just a job is irrelevant. The fact...
The battle of the hemline may already have been fought to exhaustion, and many designers have concluded that the only way to stop the hostilities is to bulldoze the battlefield -- that is, the skirt. The dominant silhouette at the Paris fall collections was a big top with tights or leggings...
Perhaps the most remarkable bit of stagecraft in Paris came not from Margiela or Gaultier but from Valentino, who sent a couple of models out carrying briefcases. Not many firms would classify their outfits as dress-for- success mainstream, but it was a nice thought. In fact, a businesswoman or...
Although it flirted dangerously with catastrophe at times, a new production of Berlioz's Les Troyens serves notice that there will be no more business as usual in Paris.