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...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...And it counted two days before I returned under its inching hands to start my journey back to London St Pancras....
...That secretive wine bar, unknown to FT colleagues, near St Paul’s?...
....£13 The Real Wine Co Dom de l’Idylle, Vieille Vigne 2019 Savoie 11.5%Light, fresh and just the right side of watery because there is so much delicate fruit, with a hint of alpine flowers....
...Additional reporting by Patricia Nilsson in London and Claire Bushey in Chicago...
...At the afternoon concert in St Giles’, Cripplegate, the centrepiece was a song cycle, written jointly by Nadia and Raoul Pugno, called Les heures claires, certainly attractive in many ways, but unmistakably...
...Details Claire Wrathall was a guest of L’Arlatan, where double rooms cost from €99....
...Claire Bushey in Chicago 53....
...Another opened near St Tropez in 2009, the year he also became a shareholder in French budget hotel brand Mama Shelter....
...Art book of 2014, this revised edition marks the 250th birthday of St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum....
...Gellatly put St John restaurant on the map for its bakery several years ago and is now sharing some of his secrets....
...The only two books I’m sure I’ll take with me are L’arte di essere felici by Arthur Schopenhauer and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina....
...Given the chancellor’s announcement yesterday of a £5bn package for new schools, roads and science projects, it is clear that Downing St is keen to learn from the example set by these relative newbies....
...Another rising star is Claire Damon, who relies solely on natural starter and stone-ground flour to produce the breads at her modern boulangerie-patisserie Des Gâteaux et du Pain....
...Charles Dickens: A Life, by Claire Tomalin, Viking, RRP£30 Dickens has a place in the heart of the nation....
...Fine de claire are reared for one month; spéciales, for three months; and pousse en claire – the ultimate oyster – for six months minimum....
...Russian consulate in London, www.rusemblon.org Russian consulate visa service, 15-27 Gee St, London EC1V 3RD....
...Day By A.L....
...Richard Sutton of Paxton & Whitfield in St....
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