Henry Purcell (1639-1693) wrote one true opera, Dido and Aeneas and a number of semi-operas, including The Fairy Queen, which premiered at the Dorset Theatre, London, in 1692. The score was lost after ...
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Brett Dean and his librettist Matthew Jocelyn turned Hamlet into an opera. Vladimir Jurkowski conducted The London Philharmonic Orchestra. Neil Armfield’s production, which he also designed, has a cle ...
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William Shakespeare. John Dryden. George Frideric Handel. Bernard Shaw. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. They have all been there. It was probably a mistake on my part to go straight from David Mc ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Visit at National Theatre/Olivier. 45 years on, Clare Zachanassian, the richest woman in the world (she owns half the world), returns to the god-forsaken town of her birth. ...
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