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Mixed Emotions

Michael Tanner Luisa Miller Opera Holland Park I n the course of Verdi's long, slow, battling progress towards eventual greatness, there are few works as weird in their mixture......

Heady Craziness

Robin Holloway N ewOrleans; Mardi Gras: stereotypes and expectations accumulated down the years change and pale confronted by a first experience of the actuality. Hitting the......