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Opera: The Queen of Spades/L’elisir d’amore Garsington ...

THE last specks of rain of the previous night’s storm pattered against the widow of the drawing-room. Meryl Stewart sat at the keyboard of her baby grand, working her way through the piano arrangement

On Friday 18 July, at the hands of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo, the BBC Proms will be launched into life with Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood – two minu

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There are gig venues, and then there’s York Minster, where symphonic metal band Plague Of Angels are playing a show backed by an enormous pipe organ. Unless a bunch of irate Christians get their way

Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari Mirco Palazzi, Marie Lys et al; Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset Aparté AP379 159 mins (2CD) A rival to Mozart – and in many ways enjoying a more successful internat