Camille Saint-Saens had intended to use the Biblical story for an oratorio but his librettist, Ferdinand Lemaire, persuaded him to turn it into an opera and it premiered after a long delay (due to the ...
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Screenings at Cine Lumiere, HOME Manchester, Glasgow Film Theatre, Watershed Bristol, Depot Lewes, Ipswich Film Theatre (half the admission money goes to support each cinema) Bruno Dumont is one of Fr ...
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Now that we are all at home and self-isolating to protect ourselves from the coronavirus, and now that the weather has started to take a turn for the better as we get deeper and deeper into summer it’ ...
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Giuseppe Verdi knew his opera of love, war, revenge and death was old-fashioned but he also knew that old-fashioned 19th century audiences loved arias, romantic melodramas and songs lavished with melo ...
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