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Berwick upon Tweed – operatic gateway to Italy

Handel’s great opera Ariodante, which is based on an incident in Lodovico Ariosto’s rambling epic of chivalry and adventure Orlando Furioso, is the only one of Handel’s thirty-odd operas which is set anywhere in the British Isles – it is in fact set in Scotland – so it is an ideal candidate for Scotch Corner,...

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