Jules Massenet’s Thais premiered in Paris in 1894 and was revised in 1898. The opera is based on Anatole France’s best-selling novel which was published in 1890. Religious eroticism is always good for ...
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The sultan’s favourite wife is caught in flagrante delicto with a Negro slave. Orientalism was in vogue and sex and violence have always been popular, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had a huge success wit ...
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Giacomo Puccini’s Il Trittico had its premiere in New York in 1918. He had long wanted to do a collection of operas in one night. Impresarios are not keen on double-bills, let alone triple bills. Audi ...
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A Rainy Day in New York (on Home Premiere from 5 June) Cert 12, 92 mins. At 84, you might think that writer-director Woody Allen would, like Clint Eastwood, at 78 with Gran Torino; 76-year-old Martin ...
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