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Gardens

Planning perfection Ursula Buchan G arden designers are perfectionists, in my experience, so it must be painful for any who write or talk about garden design to the public. They......

Opera

Queen of Spades (Welsh National Opera) Tosca (Royal Opera) Obsessive passions Michael Tanner W elsh National Opera's new produc- tion of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades makes......