Opera needs big money: opera chiefs need big donors. New York’s Metropolitan Opera has just lost a $200m investment, but should it have accepted it in the first place?

Of many thousands, the sun shone ordinarily, And in the sky, small clots of white exhaled and scudded by. But inside the organ-pipework walls The first and second violins, violas, cellos, Double bases ...

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