What will cosmopolitan Paris have made of the visit yesterday to the Élysée Palace of Rishi Sunak, born in Southampton to Indian parents and, with the exception of the Jewish-born Benjamin Disraeli, the first-ever non-Christian British leader?
Verdi’s Falstaff at the Met delivers the lulz
Is Falstaff a casual, end of career “farewell tour” simply to prove the critics who claimed Verdi could not write comedy wrong? Far from it.