12 MARCH 2005, page 53

Crowning Glory

Michael Tanner L’Incoronazione di Poppea Festival Hall M onteverdi’s last and greatest secular masterpiece, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, is an opera we get far too few chances to......

Ground Force

Ursula Buchan O n a mild, wet, early morning last autumn, I came across two earthworms ( Lumbricus terrestris ) mating on the lawn. At the vibration of my tread, they split......