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Robert Tanitch reviews A Marvellous Party on line

Noel Coward had a talent to amuse. He was described by the theatrical profession as The Master. Lord Louis Mountbatten on Noel Coward’s 70th birthday tribute said this: ‘There are probably greater pai ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Glyndebourne’s The Fairy Queen on line

Henry Purcell (1639-1693) wrote one true opera, Dido and Aeneas and a number of semi-operas, including The Fairy Queen, which premiered at the Dorset Theatre, London, in 1692. The score was lost after ...

andrew 185 views 0 likes Aug 26, 2020

Robert Tanitch reviews Glyndebourne’s Hamlet on line

Brett Dean and his librettist Matthew Jocelyn turned Hamlet into an opera. Vladimir Jurkowski conducted The London Philharmonic Orchestra. Neil Armfield’s production, which he also designed, has a cle ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Glyndebourne’s Giulio Cesare on line

William Shakespeare. John Dryden. George Frideric Handel. Bernard Shaw. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. They have all been there. It was probably a mistake on my part to go straight from David Mc ...

andrew 203 views 0 likes Aug 14, 2020