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Opera

Paul Bunyan (Royal Opera, Snape Maltings) Giant success Michael Tanner R ather as with visiting Italy, and won- dering how a country with a hopelessly dis- credited and impotent......

Exhibitions

Magnificence at the Medici Court (Palazzo Pitti, Florence, till 6 January) Princely treasures Bruce Boucher Bernardo Buontalenti: vase in lapis lazuli, Museo degli Argenti,......