Milano, Lombardia
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Hot scientist alert
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A treat to write about @StoricoRibelle, one of Europe's most expensive cheeses, made in the valley where I get to spend my weekends during the summer.
Great pics by @guypeterson_
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As Italy's next general election approaches, new star of Italy's hard right has created Trump style AI videos showing himself as a Roman emperor feeding political rivals to a lion. Interesting times ahead.
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Leader of Italy's Greens, @AngeloBonelli1 , told me in an interview for this article he'd be actively working with protestors to block construction of a luxury resort in Puglia thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
Perhaps the surest sign that an Italian opera house is in trouble is when flyers, rather than flowers, rain down from the gods. But turns out La Scala's loggionisti are more genteel than you'd imagine
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Anti-mafia judge Francesca Mariano jailed 22 members of Puglia’s Sacra Corona Unita mafia, then received a Kalashnikov bullet in the post, a severed goat’s head and a bomb at home thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
Riccardo Chailly conducts the final production of his tenure as La Scala's MD and, after some uncomfortable run-ins with the loggionisti over the years, the local audience let him know how much they appreciate him giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
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Bravo @jamalelemam what a piece, perfectly incapsulating the Italian way of life 👏🇮🇹🦚
Invasion of the peacocks leaves Italian town crying fowl thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
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“So exquisitely potent you’ll blush”
Evocative writing by @jamalelemam on the new Romeo Castellucci Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala
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Leo’s political perspective was forged in an era when Richard Daley, an Irish-American Democrat known as “the last of the big‑city bosses”, reigned over Chicago and galvanised the large, politically active Catholic community
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The Pope was nodding, though for the life of him Gareth Gore could not have said what the nodding meant. Was Leo agreeing that it was time for the Vatican to finally shed light on the practices of the Catholic Church’s most secretive and divisive sect? thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
How a tiramisu sceptic discovered what the fuss was all about, in the restaurant where the dessert was invented fifty years ago
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Via libera della Fenice a Beatrice Venezi direttrice musicale. Il Consiglio d'indirizzo: "Incarico al via da ottobre" #ANSA ow.ly/bYMV50YrWtR
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Voglio Alex Soddy come prossimo direttore della Scala!
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Brit maestro Alex Soddy tells me taking the top job at @ROH_London would be a "dream". However, based on my conversations at @teatroallascala last night, some at the Milan house would be keen to snap him up as MD at the next opportunity.
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Brit maestro Alex Soddy tells me taking the top job at @ROH_London would be a "dream". However, based on my conversations at @teatroallascala last night, some at the Milan house would be keen to snap him up as MD at the next opportunity.
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Two dozen kids standing around with placards saying they want affordable homes.
Italy going a little oberboard with riot police these days?
First opera by Giordano -- Puccini's arch rival -- was performed for first time last week at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme, same venue where Puccini’s Le villi and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci were also premiered 130 odd years ago
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Alexander Soddy and his mentor, Simone Young, have been taking turns to conduct La Scala's Ring cycle. On basis of this performance, the pupil has outgrown the master
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@bachtrack's Laura Servidei spot on - haters gonna hate bachtrack.com/review-gotterd…
