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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Mata Hari and spying are synonymous. Mata Hari is the ultimate sexually alluring spy. What better title for the box office than Mata Hari? She was born in the Netherlands in 1876. She became a famous ...
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SALOME, Oscar Wilde’s pseudo-biblical shocker, based on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, was written in French in Paris in 1890, under the heady influence of Flaubert, Maeterlinck, Mallarme, Mor ...
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Say the name Leonard Bernstein, and the heartbreaking drama and heart-rending melodies of West Side Story spring to mind with a thrilling frisson. Nowhere near as famous as his mega-hit 1960’s m ...
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