Postcard from Rome

Castel Sant'Angelo

The Villa Borghese Gardens

The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Sant'Andrea della Valle

Bernini's Apollo e Dafne

Fountain of the Four Rivers

Fontana delle Tartarughe

Gelato at Giolitti

By Mark Pullinger, 20 April 2018

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Postcard from Rome: all roads lead to the Eternal City