THE MAGIC FLUTE, Mozart’s most successful opera, premiered in Vienna in September 1791. Ten weeks later he was dead. He was just 35. Harmony, truth, friendship, enlightenment and redemption: what more ...
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Giselle, the most famous of all ballets of the Romantic era, and one of the definitive statements on heartbreak, was conceived by Theophile Gautier as a showcase for the great Carlotta Grisi and premi ...
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George Frideric Handel’s Rodelinda, a masterpiece of Baroque opera, premiered in London in 1725. This production, directed by Stephen Wadsworth and conducted by Harry Bickett, premiered at The Metropo ...
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Alan Bennett is on record as saying to Nicholas Hytner, who directed the premiere at the National Theatre in 1991 that he thought The Madness of George III unstageable. The text, with its numerous sho ...
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