GIUSEPPE VERDI IN VICTORIAN LONDON by Massimo ZICARI

“… Despite the vast research on Verdi’s compositional as well as dramatic achievements, little attention seems to have been paid to the early reception of his works in Victorian London. A review of such periodicals as The Times, The Musical Times, The Athenaeum has drawn attention to two particular aspects of relevance; Verdi’s first operas impinged upon the model represented by Rossini’s light-spirited melodiousness and provoked a sense of general bewilderment; even when opera-goers began to show clear signs of appreciation and to crowd the theatres where Verdi’s operas were performed, critics continued to object to their value and to ascribe their success to the singers’ new vocal and dramatic skills. …”
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Censorship and Creativity: The Case of Sampson Perry, Radical Editor in 1790s Paris and London by Rachel Rogers

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The Ambivalent Identity of Eighteenth-Century London Clubs as a Prelude to Victorian Clublife by Valérie Capdeville

“…Some of the first political factions that started to meet in London taverns and coffee-houses during the restoration period fostered a spirit of dissent. …”
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SPIRIT-DEFINE explanation and elaboration: recommendations for enhancing quality and impact of early phase dose-finding clinical trials protocolsResearch in context by Moreno Ursino, Guillermo Villacampa, Jan Rekowski, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Olga Solovyeva, Deborah Ashby, Jordan Berlin, Oliver Boix, Melanie Calvert, An-Wen Chan, Courtney H. Coschi, Thomas R. Jeffry Evans, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Robert M. Golub, Christina Guo, Kathryn S. Hayward, Sally Hopewell, John D. Isaacs, S. Percy Ivy, Thomas Jaki, Olga Kholmanskikh, Andrew Kightley, Shing Lee, Rong Liu, Adrian Mander, Lynley V. Marshall, James Matcham, Dhrusti Patel, Richard Peck, Khadija Rerhou Rantell, Dawn P. Richards, Mahtab Rouhifard, Lesley Seymour, Yoshiya Tanaka, Christopher J. Weir, Johann de Bono, Christina Yap

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The learning curve: A neurosurgeon's memoir by Manjul Tripathi

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Dean Farrar’s “Divine Crusade” and Victoria’s “Little Wars” by Stéphanie Prévost

“…So doing, he became closely connected to the metropolitan political decision-making centre, London, and to the breeding ground for the future members of Church of England clergy. …”
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Riders to the Sea de Ralph Vaughan Williams : un hymne à la mer, indomptable et indomptée, qui unit les nations by Florence Le Doussal

“…Riders to the Sea: An opera in one act based on the play by John Millington Synge, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s fifth opera, composed between 1925 and 1932, after The Poisoned Kiss (A Romantic Extravaganza), was first performed at London’s Royal College of Music on December 1st, 1937, with Malcolm Sargent conducting. …”
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Architecture muséale : une figure de l’art de la ville "Du British Museum à la spirale du Victoria & Albert Museum à Londres" by Isabelle Alzieu

“…The demonstration will be developed using the city of London and its British Museum as a reference and will essentially refer to the projected extensions of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Modern.…”
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Rationale and design of the CardioMEMS Post‐Market Multinational Clinical Study: COAST by Martin R. Cowie, Pascal deGroote, Scott McKenzie, Marie‐Elena Brett, Philip B. Adamson, the CardioMEMS Post‐Market Study Investigators

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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Marisa dos Reis, Joseph Burke, Raphaelle Schwarzberg (†)

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L’Opéra en version anglaise : un enjeu esthétique ou sociologique ? by Pierre Degott

“…An example of such a phenomenon is provided by the Old Vic in the 1920s, when Edward Dent’s spirited translations of Mozart’s operas won the theatre the name of "the Home of Mozart." …”
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