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Thrilled By Strauss

Michael Tanner Salome Bridgewater Hall Peter Grimes Nottingham Die Zauberflöte Royal Opera House D oes Richard Strauss’s Salome still have the power to shock, as the writers of......

Great Inspirations

Charles Spencer ‘I think continually of those who were truly great,’ wrote Stephen Spender, which must have been awkward when he was trying to read a map, cook the lunch, or......