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Roaming emotions

18th May 2010 by Helena 2 Comments  

This morning on the treadmill at the gym I suddenly found myself in tears watching a concert on Arte of Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet.

It has been a morning like most others, everyone is fine, and this afternoon we have a press trip to Atlantis to look forward to with the children, followed by free dinner. Which would normally make me extremely happy. So what was it? A sudden, terrible longing for culture? Deep-rooted memories linked to that particular ballet, which I can’t remember? Or maybe the fact that I had another 20 minutes to go on the treadmill….?

Whatever it was, the music was astoundingly beautiful, if you have time, listen to it today. But keep your tissues handy.

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2010


Filed Under: Ballet, blog --> Tagged With: emotions, roaming

2 thoughts on Roaming emotions

  • Tomoko says:
    19th May 2010 at 3:10 am

    Hi Helena

    I like your writing and I have all of your books. But it’s my first time to post on your site.
    Romeo and Juliet is one of my favourite ballets and the Kenneth MacMillan’s production for the Royal Ballet is the best one in my opinion. I’m sure you saw it when you lived in England. The music itself is beautiful as you say and listening to it always brings tears to my eyes. My current favourite Romeos and Juilets are Johan Kobborg&Alina Cojocaru and Carlos Acosta&Tamara Rojo. You must see them! Your life over there sounds fantastic, but I couldn’t live in a country with no ballet……

  • Cate Jumeirah says:
    19th May 2010 at 6:21 pm

    The performing arts and four proper seasons are at the top of my list of things I miss madly by living in the Gulf. I spent my working days last week planning my boss’s summer holiday in Europe that is going to include ballet at the Garnier in Paris, opera at the Bastille and Munich. I was speechless when confronted with the calendar of performances at all three theatres merely in the next couple of months and did begin questioning whether life in a cultural desert such as this was worth it.
    Dare I suggest that from the outside it can sometimes look as though we have so much here in the UAE. But in truth – beyond our families and our careers – our lives are often rather empty?

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group. She writes a beauty blog wwwbeautyorbeast.uk.

Her third novel, The Arnolfini Marriage, based on a romance that evolves around a van Eyck masterpiece came out in 2016. As well as writing regularly for newspapers and magazines, Helena is also working on a thriller called Welcome to Sweden that will be published in spring 2018. Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles is out in hardback and will be out in paperback in January 2018.

Helena was educated at Durham University and lived in the Languedoc region of France for eight years, where the family still have a home. She lives in London with her husband Rupert and their three children.

Bibliography

More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007

So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square January 2018

Welcome to Sweden; Gibson Square spring 2018

 

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