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Dance

Stravinsky Programme (Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia) Italian style Giannandrea Poesio A mong Diaghilev's collaborators, Igor Stravinsky was one of the few who never totally fell......

Salerooms

Venus jigsaw Susan Moore W hen the 29-year-old William Weddell acquired a marble statue of Venus in Rome in 1764, he paid the dealer Thomas Jenkins an astronomical but......

Opera

Macbeth (Royal Opera House) Sweeney Todd (Sadler's Wells) Tense moments Michael Tanner M acbeth is the first of Verdi's operas in which his characteristic urgency and pace are......