Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, premiered in New York in 1949. Directed by Joshua Logan, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and ran for ...
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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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The sultan’s favourite wife is caught in flagrante delicto with a Negro slave. Orientalism was in vogue and sex and violence have always been popular, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had a huge success wit ...
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Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 4 (2017) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Oxford University Press £16.99). A new translation by Nicholas Pasternak Slater. The novel, a psychological ex ...
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