Tag: Classical music
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Philharmonie de Paris: Jean Nouvel’s €390m spaceship crash-lands in France
Paris’s gargantuan new concert hall is two years late, cost three times what it should, and its architect even snubbed its opening … Oliver Wainwright tackles a tyrannical new mothership
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Venice – the city that created opera
In the early 18th century, Venice, a city of some 160,000 inhabitants, boasted seven full-time opera houses. John Julius Norwich looks at the Italian city’s great cultural history