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Opera

Verdi Festival (Royal Opera House) Turkish delight Rupert Christiansen G arsington Opera, staged annually in the exquisite garden of a beautiful Eliza- bethan house near Oxford......

Arts

Looking through the glass Simon Courtauld talks to the octogenarian glass engraver Laurence Whistler G ood Lord, I thought he died years ago,' has been the most common reaction......