People tend to get a bit possessive about Captain Corelli's Mandolin, so let me make my own position clear right now. I've read Louis de Bernieres' novel, enjoyed most of it and forgotten nearly all ...
One of Italy's finest opera singers, Franco Corelli, has died in Milan. Corelli, who was 82, had been in hospital after suffering a stroke in August. He made his operatic debut in 1951 as Don Jose in ...