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Eat outside without the faff this summer
Eat outside without the faff this summer
To hear a concert performance of Smetana’s almost-forgotten Dalibor after witnessing a lavish production of Szymanowski’s comparably-ignored Krol Roger the night before, was to wish that these works could have swapped places, because while Szymanowski’s opera is dramatically inert and melodically barren, Smetana’s is a cornucopia of melody, intensely dramatic in every bar.
It’s always a relief to see something new at Covent Garden, and Kasper Holten’s production of Krol Roger by Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) is the first in ROH history.
On the weekend of the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, they came out like boxers into the ring.
Maya Plisetskaya, regarded as one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century and whose career at Russia's Bolshoi Theatre spanned more than 35 years, has died aged 89.
James Corden is having the time of his life.
Since the start of the election campaign, the front door of Michelle Barrett's council home has been a magnet for television crews, canvassers and reporters
Britain’s love affair with property continues unabated, despite the 2008 house price crash and fears that house values have risen too far above wages. Still we dream of owning our own home, and someone else’s too.
The nation has roughly divided into two groups in the past few months. Not Tory and Labour but “taken action” and “done nothing”.
When Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ran the country between 1 May 1997 and 6 May 2010, the FTSE 100 delivered a total annual return of around 4.5 per cent. In other words, every £1,000 invested at the start of the Labour government in 1997 would have turned into £1,772 after 13 years.
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