Category: Cultural Reflections & Reviews
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Discovering India in Hamburg
It was at the recording of my live podcast episode on the role fashion and cuisine have played in diplomacy since the reign of Louis XIV that I met Soumya Gupta, then newly appointed Indian Consul General to Northern Germany, who had not long before arrived to Hamburg. The former…
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Two Highlights from 2025: Die Unsichtbaren (The Invisibles) and The Snow Queen
Two of the opera houses I have frequented most in recent years are the Hamburgische Staatsoper and the Semperoper Dresden. As we prepare to slide into 2026, and as I mentally survey the many performances I attended in 2025, concerts, ballets, operas, and theatre productions alike, two events continue to resurface as particularly…
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An Interview with Artist MARIE DE VILLEPIN at the Galerie Melbye-Konan
Marie de Villepin’s work is in permanent va-et-vient, oscillating between the angelic, the spiritual, the delicate, and, on the opposite pole, the demonic, the brutally real, and the rough and chaotic. Whether as a model for Givenchy, or as a musician with the band PINKMIST, or yet again, as a…
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