Ben is Benjamin Britten, the famed composer of Peter Grimes and Billy Budd. Imo is Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav Holst, music teacher, composer and musical assistant. Mark Ravenhill explores their ...
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Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard premiered with great success in 1888, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee when the nation was being very patriotic and nostalgic for Ye Olde Engl ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) (May 27 in cinemas & June 1 on Prime Video) Cert 12A, 89 mins. There is no British director who portrays the anxiety, despair and the defiant ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews the Royal Opera House’s Gloriana on ROH Facebook and YouTube channels. Benjamin Britten wrote Gloriana to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He and his libr ...
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