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Leonard Bernstein ‘s TROUBLE IN TAHITI OPERA NORTH Online June 2020

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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Robert Tanitch reviews The Royal Ballet’s The Cellist on line

The cellist is Jacqueline du Pre (1945-1987) who made her debut at 16 and quickly established an international reputation. Her career as a player stopped in 1973 with the onset of multiple sclerosis. ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews The Metropolitan New York’s Damnation of Faust on line

Hector Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, which premiered unsuccessfully in 1846, is far more frequently performed in concert than it is staged. Berlioz didn’t want décor costumes. It wasn’t an opera. ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews the RSC’s Othello on line

In 2015 for the first time in its history the Royal Shakespeare Company cast a black actor as Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello When Iqbal Khan’s modern dress, multi-racial production began I thought they ...

andrew 201 views 0 likes May 28, 2020