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...The festival began at the beginning, with Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, first heard in 1625 and now considered the first opera composed by a woman....
...At one point he alludes to the Neapolitan director Francesco Rosi’s 1963 film Hands over the City, which chronicles the rise of the Camorra from loan-sharking to the construction business, and eventually...
...That’s problematic,” says Carlo di Florio, head of the SEC’s examination division....
...on the Inalytics’ measures of skill, hit rates and win-loss ratios, we found that Australian managers’ levels of skill are in fact very similar to those for the rest of the global industry,” said Rick Di...
...Conceived and directed by Gian Marco Lo Forte, the Italian libretto recreates “vulgar” 14th-century poetry from I fioretti di San Francesco....
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...He fastens his camera on Di, Silly’s girlfriend, when she sheds a single, secret, desperate tear, trying to direct it into the street shadows. Lewis shows no mercy, knows no defeat....
...Kelly reels off the roles she still wants to sing: Countess Madeleine (Capriccio), Frau Storch (Intermezzo), the title role in Barber’s Vanessa, Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes), Elsa (Lohengrin), Tosca....
...Clos Pegas, a stunning example of postmodern architecture by Michael Graves, has a collection of 20th-century sculptures (Henry Moore, Mark di Suvero) and paintings (Dubuffet, principally)....
...Verdicchio di Matelica, La Monasesca 2003 Marche Wine of the Times £8.50 So much fruit this is almost honeyed....
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