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...After the strained awfulness of the first two operas, Gianni Schicchi is served up with lashings of Laurel and Hardy-style slapstick, and the audience collapses into hysterics....
...Pagano’s son Michele continued the barter model for a couple of decades before turning it officially into a hotel....
...On loan from Budapest, it shows the naked deity, lyre in his hand, dozing in a glade of laurel trees, beneath a trumpet-toting angel....
...Baritone Mark Delavan brooded magnificently as the jealous barge owner Michele, tenor Salvatore Licitra voiced the stevedore’s ardour in gleaming muscular tones....
...The salty soil means that it’s lush with trees – acacia, laurel, tamarisk and the bushy white-flowered sambuca....
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