When Verdi was asked which of his operas was his favourite he replied Rigoletto. The premiere in 1851 was a huge success with the public and has remained so ever since. Whenever ENO was strapped for c ...
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English National Opera celebrates Puccini’s centenary with a revival of Jonathan Miller’s ever-popular 2009 production of La Boheme, sung by a young cast and conducted by Celia Cafiero. One of the mos ...
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THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Rossini’s sparkling comic masterpiece, dashed off in less than three weeks when he was but 25-years-old, had a disastrous first night in Rome in 1816. The strings of a guitar br ...
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LA BOHÈME, which established Puccini’s international reputation in 1896, is one of the most popular operas ever written. It remains the definitive statement on friendship, love, poverty, consumption a ...
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