Joyce Glasser reviews The Count of Monte Cristo (August 30, 2024) Cert 12A, 177 mins. In cinemas While so many American and British two-and-a-half-hour plus action movies are instantly forgettable, Ma ...
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With flamboyant, hedonistic abandon, Violetta’s life as an up-market courtesan whirls her through the ballrooms and bedrooms of vibrant Parisian high society and, as she recovers from a bout of ...
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The courtesan, with a heart of gold, nobly sacrificing herself for the man she loves and dying of consumption, is the very stuff of which romantic dramas are made. La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) was a ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews the Royal Opera House’s La Traviata on YouTube Giuseppe Verdi, looking for a new subject and wanting something, which was “novel, beautiful, grand, varied, daring,” chose Alexan ...
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