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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LA BOHÈME, which established Puccini’s international reputation in 1896, is one of the most popular operas ever written. It remains the definitive statement on friendship, love, poverty, consumption a ...
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Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle is the biggest work in the history of music. It took him 28 years to write and perform at the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876. ENO’s Ring Cycle, the first in over 15 years, ...
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