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...If confirmed, the Moscow concert hall attack would be Isis-K’s first major terror attack outside south-west Asia....
...Mark Ravenhill’s two-hander Ben and Imo (at the RSC’s Swan Theatre), about Holst’s collaboration with Benjamin Britten as he struggled to complete his 1953 opera Gloriana, underlines her brilliance and also...
...Western officials blamed Islamic State-Khorasan Province, the Afghanistan-based affiliate of the Middle Eastern extremist group and bitter enemy of the Taliban, for last week’s attack on a Moscow concert hall...
...I’m Benjamin Zephaniah. You are wonderful. Bye.”...
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...The rest of MacMillan’s programme was rooted in the north of Europe, with Pärt’s Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem and the radiant string threnody of Rautavaara’s Into the...
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...At a star-studded fundraiser held at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, Obama and Clinton backed Biden’s leadership on the Middle East conflict, as protesters interrupted the event to criticise...
...Even as China’s president played the exuberant host, welcoming world leaders from Russia’s Vladimir Putin to Indonesia’s Joko Widodo at the Great Hall of the People, an undercurrent of geopolitical animosity...
...It has added a second hall, boosting the exhibitor space by 12,000sq m, and the number of brands has risen from 48 to 54, with Raymond Weil and Bremont among those joining heavyweights such as Rolex and...
...Benjamin Grosvenor has the full armoury of technique and musicianship at his fingertips and there was never any doubt that he would command both the huge hall and the occasion....
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...If you can’t make the Royal Albert Hall, this year there are events in location as varied as Great Yarmouth, Derry, Aberystwyth and Dewsbury....
...Xi Jinping, at the Great Hall of the People....
...You can reach me at ben.hall@ft.com. First, the results of last week’s poll....
...The 1953 Coronation opera season is famous for bringing Maria Callas to Covent Garden in three roles (one of them the title role in Verdi’s Aida) and for the world premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana...
...From March 19; further information and tickets here ‘Roméo et Juliette’ and ‘La Rondine’, The Metropolitan Opera Benjamin Bernheim and Nadia Sierra are the doomed lovers in Gounod’s 1867 opera, with Yannick...
...Here’s more on Fraser’s town hall appearance last week. 5....
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