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Opera North's Francesca da Rimini & Pagliacci
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Opera North's Francesca da Rimini & Pagliacci
The third installment of Opera North's one-acter season, first seen on 7 May, offered a rare Rachmaninov and that old war-horse Pagliacci in stagings which found David Pountney at the top of his form and Christopher Alden at his most quixotic.
Modest Tchaikovsky's libretto for Francesca da Rimini, based on Dante's Paolo and Francesca episode, is so undramatic as to render the piece a tone poem with vocal interjections. Pountney has nonetheless created an authentic onstage Hell. Frightened and restless refugees and immigrants, clutching ...
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Travel: India's dream castle in the sands The walls of the Golden Fortress are besieged, but Andrew Robinson finds Jaisalmer, with its intricate carvings and cruel history, as entrancing as ever
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; THERE IS an old rhyme about Jaisalmer, the remote, medieval fortress...iron, / Alone will get you / To Jaisalmer. When I first went there in the...daytime temperatures at around 100F, Jaisalmer's rugged reputation was still very...
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Toros en Jaisalmer.(TT: Bullfights in Jaisalmer.)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; ...adems, cuando me dispona a hablar de Jaisalmer, esa refulgente gema engastada y, a...de san Isidro sigue en su apogeo. -Y Jaisalmer, angelito vestido de luces? Qu hacemos con Jaisalmer? -Qudese para maana. MIRCOLES Ultimas...
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Jaisalmer.(narrativa de viaje)(TT: Jaisalmer.)(TA: travel narrative)(ArtÃculo Breve)(Columna)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; ...al que sirve de rtulo a esta crnica: Jaisalmer. Quienes hayan estado en la India...longitud y latitud de su emplazamiento: Jaisalmer, lo digo con reluctancia, es el ltimo...maldita sea mi estampa, no?) en Jaisalmer, pero all la belleza es tan alta, la...
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INDIA 800 YEARS HAVE FAILED TO DIMINISH THE MAGIC OF JAISALMER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...miles of yellow sandstone ramparts, Jaisalmer withstood 800 years of desert warfare...it was from rival tribes. I came upon Jaisalmer somewhat by chance, during a three...before my arrival, and Moira suggested Jaisalmer as an alternative. It turned out to...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Finding real India in a bustling tourist town; Jaisalmer, along an ancient camel trading route in Rajasthan, keeps travelers coming with its turreted sandstone fortress.(TRAVEL)(City overview)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...navigate the alleyways inside the fort at Jaisalmer, India, but cows can, and I learned...traveling between India and Central Asia. Jaisalmer faded at the end of the 19th century...by his grandfather, prime minister to Jaisalmer's ruling family in the 1800s. Thirty...
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Jaisalmer to get a civil airport.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; Jaisalmer to get a civil airport Jodhpur, Dec...Indian Air Force (IAF) airstrip in Jaisalmer, Airport Authority of India (AAI...the new airport in Khudi village of the Jaisalmer. "We are going to kick-off the construction...
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'Nanhe Jaisalmer', an endearing star-fan friendship film
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; Mumbai, Sept. 15 -- 'Nanhe Jaisalmer'; Cast: Bobby Deol, Dwij Yadav...don't look faked or forced. "Nanhe Jaisalmer" is a crisp, minty and somewhat audacious...companions in the desert. The sands of Jaisalmer are shot by Binod Pradhan as compressed...
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Fall of the Citadel ; Three faultlines running under the 12th century Jaisalmer Fort, along with a crisis-ridden sewage system and illegal constructions have transformed a threat to heritage into a danger to human life
Newspaper article from: India Today
; ...Kaveree Bamzai In 1993, when the first of Jaisalmer Fort's bastions collapsed, two people...even the trustee of London-based NGO Jaisalmer-in-Jeopardy (JIJ) Veronica Gledhill...water in collapsed buildings and told the Jaisalmer ground water department that "the water...
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INDIAN GOVERNMENT: Emerging measures being taken to re repair Jaisalmer Fort.
M2 Presswire
; ...Emerging measures being taken to repair Jaisalmer Fort (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:040899 Unusually heavy rains in Jaisalmer during the last few days has reportedly...total number of ninety one bastions of Jaisalmer Fort. Although the road between Jodhpur...
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Two suspected ISI agents arrested in Jaisalmer.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; ...suspected ISI agents arrested in Jaisalmer Jaipur, June 19 (PTI) Two persons...arrested from border district of Jaisalmer today for allegedly supplying...Dhani in Khuiyala village in Jaisalmer district, Devrajan said. "Morey...
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