Elin Manahan Thomas joins Andrew McGregor to discuss her pick of the best new releases, and Building a Library on Donizetti's ...

Donizetti was a truly prolific opera composer, he could turn out as many as three or four a year and was said to have sketched and written the last act of La favorita in a few hours. Imagine composing ...

Contemporary art and furniture filled the ornate interiors of a 19th-century palazzo in the third edition of L'Appartamento ...