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Undiluted Pleasure

Michael Tanner Hansel und Gretel Glyndebourne La bohème Royal Opera House T he two operas I saw last week were premièred just over two years apart, Humperdinck’s Hansel und......

Festival Madness

Kate Chisholm I t was totally over-the-top, the first-night concert of this year’s Proms season, the 114th since Henry Wood set out in 1895 to educate the musical palate of the......