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Opera

Don Carlos (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) Loyalty not fidelity Rupert Christiansen I first saw Luc Bondy's enthralling produc- tion of Verdi's Don Carlos in Paris on 1......

Arts

Not before 1830 John Simon likes only the music of the last 196 years P eople, told that I don't care for operas written before 1830, ask me condescend- ingly whether I like......