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The English baroque oratorio, which deals with the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ, is performed for yet another year with multiple concerts and an excellent new recording

Whether you love novels, history, or cookbooks, read here are 14 great books about and taking place in Italy to read before your next trip to the country.

Handel with Hammond organ and hand claps. Scatting and swing. Five saxophones – this is Messiah, but not perhaps as you know it. Marin Alsop’s Gospel Messiah had its European premiere at the Royal Albert Hall on 7 December, ahead of a broadcast on BBC Radio 3

James Marriott: Obsession with Barbie and Love Island shows we no longer believe our problems can be solved

There’s a resonance for Australians here as the Indian tribes re-assert their rites to ‘country’, in ways our indigenous are doing, and it is causing some friction for the future of Palm Springs. BTW, the almost two-hour talk is being edited and will be published by e-classroom later this year.

It is a brave writer who takes on Venice, La Serenissima, given the long list of distinguished predecessors in whose footsteps he or she must tread, not least those of John Julius Norwich and Jan Morris, let alone the Victorian sage John Ruskin and his 'The Stones of Venice'. Jonathan Keates, the author of La Serenissima, is well aware of the challenge involved. Indeed, he starts his brief introduction with the comment made by Goethe some fifty years before Ruskin was writing that &#03...

Highlights of events taking place on the Maltese islands in the coming days

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