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Le Living Restaurant Paris

Mónica Boixeda Food and Drink in Paris, Only-Be, Parisian

Le Living is a restaurant which belongs to the well known Duplex Club, in the prestigious 16 Arrondissement in Paris.

Tori Amos is one of the most influential singers of the 90s, and she´s back in Italy on tour presenting her new album ´Night of Hunters´, released in May of this year. She´s one of the most eccentric characters in the world of pre-Lady Gaga pop music, but also a singer of great talent and many instrumental capacities. Her piano, who has been with her since the age of 3, has always been her biggest expressive weapon. Since she was little, at the age of 5, she became famous in the musical scene of her city (Rockville, Maryland), when in 1968 she managed to get in the Peabody Music Consevatory, who accepted her with a full scholarship. She was the only student accepted there of the age of 5 in the whole history of this conservatory but, a few years later, her scholarship was retracted and Tori Amos was expelled of the school for her “subversive” attitude: she liked rock (at 11 years old she sung Led Zeppelin songs and this was unconceivable in such a strict school). Also, her way of playing was always more instinctive rather than controlled and following the rules and virtuosity. She hated the music sheets, hated discipline and this made her look heretic in her teacher´s eyes. That´s how Tori Amos ended up playing in bars with help from her father, who managed to get her some shows and continuously sent demos of her songs to all record labels in the country, with a near-complete dedication and total faith in his daughter´s talent. He wasn´t wrong. It was on one of these occasions... read more

‘Elektra’ by Richard Strauss at the Teatro Real in Madrid

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian, Only-Be

With autumn, Madrid shows its best face. The activity in cafés and restaurants, streets and avenues and squares and museums comes back. After the summer break, it seems that everything is back in its place, and not only in terms of work but also in that small leisure patch which we leave for the development of our soul and intellect. The exhibitions, theatre plays and, of course, music concerts are back. And if there´s a must-go place for music lovers in the Spanish capital that is, undoubtedly, the Teatro Real de Madrid, Madrid´s Royal Theatre, one of the best opera palaces in Europe. Even if it´s for only enjoying one of its programmed concerts, it´s worth going to the Plaza de Oriente or to the Plaza Reina Isabel II. If, also, it´s the staging of an opera, the evening will be more than complete. At the Theatre, the season begins on September 30th with the opera ´Elektra´ (1909) by Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Much has been said about Strauss´ second opera, the first in collaboration with the screenwriter Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) and whose level of dissonance arrived at the limit of the German composer´s career. Elektra has the experimental and offensive character in line with all the artistic expressions of its kind in the first decades of 20th century Europe. Lesser known than its symphonic poems such as ´Thus spoke Zarathustra´ (1889) and ´Don Quijote´ (1897), Elektra is based on the classic work with the same name. The drama of Elektra was originally narrated by Homer, but the ancient authors made their own singular versions. The complete works or... read more