There have been many versions of Cinderella over the centuries, going right back to Strabo in the first century AD and coming right up to Andrew Lloyd Webber in the present day. Gioachino Rossini’s bu ...
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Joe Hill-Gibbin’s production premiered at the London Coliseum in March 2020, only to close immediately because off Covid. Five years later it is back. Mozart’s music, a sublime mixture of wit and mela ...
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Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance premiered in New York in 1879 and has been one of the most popular Savoy Operas ever since. Sullivan thought the score infinitely superior to HMS P ...
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Gaetano Donizetti wrote 68 operas in 27 years. The Elixir of Love, an opera buffa masterpiece, the most melodious of romantic comedies, was written at speed in six weeks and premiered in Milan in 1832 ...
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