This particular performance of the most famous ballet of the Romantic era is a very special and emotional occasion. Two nations are in mourning. The UK mourns the death of their Queen, Ukraine mourns ...
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I came to Paul Ruders’ opera totally fresh, having not read Margaret Atwood’s1985 futuristic dystopian novel and neither having seen the1990 film nor the TV series. The opera premiered in Copenhagen i ...
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For much of the 19th century, Mozart’s opera (which had premiered in Vienna in 1790) was thought to be too risqué to be staged and it wasn’t until the 20th century that it regained its popularity Two ...
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Leos Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, which premiered in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1924, is based on a cartoon strip, which appeared in a daily Brno newspaper. There are two worlds: an animal world a ...
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