WELLS CATHEDRAL is fund-raising for a £7-million restoration project: Vicars’ Close (News, 9 August 2024). Sited next to the cathedral, it is the oldest medieval street in Europe still inhabited for ...
Under the Mediterranean sun he devised a light-hearted confection, part courtly love, part saturnine comedy, part glorification of medieval Provence. The audience at the Paris premiere in 1901 loved ...