Big movie hit of 1956, massively popular ever since, is the rom-com High Society, a film that sparkles at every delightful moment in spite of its silly plot and whisks you off most joyfully to nowhere ...
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It’s grim, it’s glorious and, as the story unfolds through three acts and six orchestral interludes, it becomes more and more moving. Vibrant characters, wonderful singing, a super-superb ...
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Billed as a match made in mayhem, Mozart’s rom-com, The Marriage of Figaro, always a top opera worldwide, is frantically fuelled and preposterously propelled by whirlwinds of cunning plans, twis ...
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One of the things Phyllida Lloyd CBE did prior to going famously all Abba-dabba-doo-Waterloo with her 1999 onstage Mamma Mia! and 2008 big screen version was to direct Opera North’s La Boheme in ...
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