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James Imam

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News / investigations / opera 🇮🇹. Write for @thetimes, @FT and others

 Milano, Lombardia
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Meet Quantum Girl, the physics graduate becoming a science sensation

Meet Quantum Girl, the physics graduate becoming a science sensation

At 29, Italian Virginia Benzi is on a mission to battle for gender parity and inspire a new generation of female scientists in the land of Galileo and Da Vinci

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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_ thetimes.com/article/6d195ed…
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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. thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
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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…
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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 thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
The opera ‘ultras’ staging a revolt at La Scala

The opera ‘ultras’ staging a revolt at La Scala

The loggionisti at La Scala and other traditional houses are notoriously hard to please at the best of times, having booed some of the greatest names in opera

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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…
Death, duty and the daughter of Salento who fought the mafia — and won

Death, duty and the daughter of Salento who fought the mafia — and won

Maria Francesca Mariano, a judge who ordered the arrest of members of Italy’s ‘fourth mafia’, is not deterred by death threats, from bullets in the post to a severed goat’s head

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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 👏🇮🇹🦚
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Invasion of the peacocks leaves Italian town crying fowl thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
Invasion of the peacocks leaves Italian town crying fowl

Invasion of the peacocks leaves Italian town crying fowl

The resort of Punta Marina has been overrun but one self-appointed ranger spots a chance to make some money with ‘urban safaris’

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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 ft.com/content/37effa6c-0c78…
Five stars for La Scala’s Pelléas et Mélisande — so exquisitely potent you’ll blush

Five stars for La Scala’s Pelléas et Mélisande — so exquisitely potent you’ll blush

Romeo Castellucci’s spellbinding production in Milan demonstrates a complete mastery of his craft

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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 thetimes.com/us/american-pol…
Why Leo took on Donald — inside the Pope’s fight with Trump

Why Leo took on Donald — inside the Pope’s fight with Trump

The White House insists the American in the Vatican should ‘stick to morality’ and let the US wage its wars. They’ve underestimated him, experts say

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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…
‘I told Pope Leo of Opus Dei’s abuses. But I don’t know if he’ll act’

‘I told Pope Leo of Opus Dei’s abuses. But I don’t know if he’ll act’

The journalist Gareth Gore says the Pope nodded as he was told about the sect this week — but will he risk a rift in the church by opening an inquiry?

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How a tiramisu sceptic discovered what the fuss was all about, in the restaurant where the dessert was invented fifty years ago thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
‘I want to sleep on a pillow of tiramisu’: fans flock to temple of dessert

‘I want to sleep on a pillow of tiramisu’: fans flock to temple of dessert

The classic pudding made of coffee and mascarpone is celebrated in Treviso as the city seeks to attract gastronomic tourists. Plus: the best tiramisu in London

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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
Via libera della Fenice a Venezi direttrice musicale - Musica - Ansa.it

Via libera della Fenice a Venezi direttrice musicale - Musica - Ansa.it

"Il Consiglio d'indirizzo del Teatro La Fenice, oggi riunitosi con il presidente Luigi Brugnaro, ha espresso approvazione per la nomina del maestro Beatrice Venezi a direttore musicale del Teatro e...

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Voglio Alex Soddy come prossimo direttore della Scala! nitter.gq/i/status/2029200670440…
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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. thetimes.com/culture/classic…
Alexander Soddy: ‘I’m on to my fifth Ring cycle, which isn’t bad!’

Alexander Soddy: ‘I’m on to my fifth Ring cycle, which isn’t bad!’

Only 43, the Oxford-born conductor is leading a controversial Wagner production in Milan’s La Scala. The top job at Covent Garden would be a dream, he says

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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. thetimes.com/culture/classic…
Alexander Soddy: ‘I’m on to my fifth Ring cycle, which isn’t bad!’

Alexander Soddy: ‘I’m on to my fifth Ring cycle, which isn’t bad!’

Only 43, the Oxford-born conductor is leading a controversial Wagner production in Milan’s La Scala. The top job at Covent Garden would be a dream, he says

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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?
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Hot priest says it's time to talk about self pleasure thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
Let’s talk about sex, says hot priest given Vatican cold shoulder

Let’s talk about sex, says hot priest given Vatican cold shoulder

Don Alberto Ravagnani says the Catholic Church’s requirement that he abstain from relationships and physical intimacy led him to step down

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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 thetimes.com/culture/classic…
A lost opera, a hidden score — and the secrets of Puccini’s great rival

A lost opera, a hidden score — and the secrets of Puccini’s great rival

Marina, Umberto Giordano’s first opera, has been rediscovered after 140 years — and performed in Milan by a cast including the British tenor Freddie De Tommaso

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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 giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
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@bachtrack's Laura Servidei spot on - haters gonna hate bachtrack.com/review-gotterd…

The Ring returns to the Rhine: Götterdämmerung at La Scala

Under Alexander Soddy’s powerful conducting and Sir David McVicar’s dark, evocative staging, the Ring finds a searing conclusion, anchored by a powerful Brünnhilde from Camilla Nylund, as the world...

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