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Arts

The key to greatness Harry Eyres sees poetry at the heart of Chopin's music aristocratic composer — perhaps the most disdainfully aristocratic spirit in all music — who became......

Exhibitions

The Triumph of the Baroque, Architecture in Europe 1600-1750 (Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Turin, till 9 November) A visual feast Selina Mills I n a city that prides itself......

Opera

Weill and Zemlinsky (South Bank) At loggerheads Michael Tanner peratic action in London last week centred on the South Bank, where in the Queen Elizabeth Hall the very dispersed......