THE SLEEPING BEAUTY has a special place in Royal Ballet’s collective heart. It was this ballet, which re-opened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II. Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann sta ...
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SALOME, Oscar Wilde’s pseudo-biblical shocker, based on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, was written in French in Paris in 1890, under the heady influence of Flaubert, Maeterlinck, Mallarme, Mor ...
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Robert Tanitch’s Round-up of Books No 4 (2018) Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis (Head of Zeus £25). Oscar Wilde wrote the most famous and wittiest comedy in the English language, The Importance of Bei ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Salome at London Coliseum Oscar Wilde’s pseudo-biblical shocker, gaudy, decadent, vulgar, was written in French in Paris whilst under the heady influence of Flaubert ...
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