John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, directed by Colin Graham and conducted by James Levine, premiered at The Metropolitan, New York in 1991. Corigliano had long wanted to write an opera buffo ...
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Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, directed by Mariusz Trelinski and conducted by Valery Gergiev, were performed as a double-bill at The Metropolitan, New York in 2015. Total ...
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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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