Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

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I have long been an admirer of interior designer Beata Heuman’s creative and playful style, so news of a collaboration with luxury British paint brand Mylands immediately caught my attention. The resu