Gaetano Donizetti wrote 68 operas in 27 years. The Elixir of Love, an opera buffa masterpiece, the most melodious of romantic comedies, was written at speed in six weeks and premiered in Milan in 1832 ...
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I came out of the theatre thinking about Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray remaining young and beautiful all his life whilst his portrait in the attic grows old and ugly, registering his decadent life. F Scot ...
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Always a festive treat is the bewitching charm of Northern Ballet’s A Christmas Carol. With drama and character firmly at the fore, theatricality fires on all fronts as the stage fills with spec ...
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Common Ground[s] is calm, dignified and slow. The Rite of Spring is wild, savage and fast. The double bill is a collaboration between Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation in Germany and École des Sa ...
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