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  Two operas for the price of one

  Two operas for the price of oneLoofahs | Sydney Opera House | Seven Sisters | 1917 | Biodegradable Guardian bags

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  One Ring Cycle to rule them all at Southbank

  I run one of London’s great orchestras — the London Philharmonic, founded in 1932. It has been a concert and opera orchestra from its very beginning: our first conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, was also music director of the Royal Opera House and pre-war there was not an Opera House Orchestra as there is today. For the past 55 years the LPO has been the resident orchestra of Glyndebourne Opera Summer Festival.In between summers we usually present one opera in concert in our London home, the Royal F

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  Proms 2019: LSO/Rattle review – An exhilarating take on a choral blockbuster

  Like so many of Simon Rattle’s concerts, this high-voltage Prom was as educative as it was enjoyable. It presented William Walton’s choral blockbuster Belshazzar’s Feast in the context of contemporary developments elsewhere.Belshazzar was delivered with equal sensitivity to its English choral roots (Vaughan Williams’s spirit lurking somewhere) and its Jazz Age pizzazz.

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  Gerald English obituary

  Gerald English emigrated to Australia in the 1970s. One of the landmarks of that part of his career included Janáček’s Diary of One Who Disappeared at the Melbourne international festival in 1992. Photograph: The Age/Fairfax/Getty The tenor Gerald English, who has died aged 93, spent most of his formative years in northern France, and his later ones in Australia. During the main part of his career, based in Britain, he was free-ranging, too, in the music he sang. At the age of 25 he sang alongs

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  Jim Armitage: Emma Walmsley’s deal paves the way to find more cures

  GSK has evolved more times than the malaria parasite over the centuries, but has always had a mixture of what we now call consumer healthcare and pharmaceuticals. After all, trace it back to its origins, and you find Victorian herbalist Thomas Beecham’s Beecham Pills laxatives and Joseph Nathan’s Glaxo brand baby milk powder (slogan: Glaxo builds bonny babies). Sure, you got nice steady revenues from Lucozade and Panadol to invest in the high-risk, super-expensive game of inventing new prescri

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  My 80th birthday present? A cigarette

  ‘I keep telling my family that when I reach 80 I shall smoke my first ever cigarette,’ writes Anne Abbott. Photograph: Bruno Vincent/Getty Images

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