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Rufus Wainwright swings at Michael Kors' show

The designer surprised his audience with a swinging live performance by Rufus Wainwright. Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Joan Smalls, and Julia Nobis were among the all-star model cast, and there was a star-studded front row, too. As for the clothes, all of Kors’s usual signatures were here: the glitzy dresses, the crisp jackets, plus a few unexpected flourishes.

Nicole Kidman returns to the London stage

Photograph 51 opened in the West End of London in September 2015. Kidman plays Rosalind Franklin, the socially awkward X-ray crystallographer whose research helped Francis Crick, James Watson and the lesser-known Maurice Wilkins win a Nobel prize.

'The Hunger Games' by Suzanne Collins is published

The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, a post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation.

Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan

Body Worlds is a traveling exposition of dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical structures of the body that have been preserved through the process of plastination. Body Worlds was first presented in Tokyo in 1995. Body Worlds exhibitions have since been hosted by more than 50 museums and venues in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Britten's 'The Turn of the Screw' premieres in Venice

The opera was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and given its world premiere in September 1954, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice. The original recording was made during that year, with the composer conducting. Described as one of the most dramatically appealing English operas, the opera in 2 acts has a prologue and 16 scenes.

George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio 'Messiah'

Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly a year later.

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