Hints and tips:
...The Sella Ronda’s myriad ski runs are given over to mountain bikes; the rifugi sprout outdoor seating areas, dense with hikers admiring cinematic views scoured clean of pollution while they drink icy steins...
...I gather French people fuss about Carla Bruni and Michèle Alliot-Marie (“MAM” to insiders). It passes me by. Living here, my tinnitus has almost entirely cleared up....
...Baritone Michele Kalmandi takes the title role, soprano Cynthia Makris plays the infamous spouse and the China Philharmonic Orchestra plays under the baton of Jari Hämäläinen....
...Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Queen Alexandra, Claude Monet, John F Kennedy and Gertrude Stein all posed with the birds....
...The Michele was the Spaniard Juan Pons, whose stage personality is no more imposing than when I first heard him at La Scala 25 years ago as a young Falstaff in the Strehler production....
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