Bizet was commissioned to write The Pearl Fishers (Les Pecheurs de Perles) when he was but 24, ten years before he went on to perturb the public with the passionate, murderous tragedy of Carmen, whose ...
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Drawn in at every turn by characters played and sung with utter conviction, the audience is swept along on Tosca’s thrilling, action-packed, emotional journey, their eyes and ears feasting all t ...
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It’s a somewhat bizarre concoction is Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen. The starting point for the work came a hundred years ago when the illustrated tales of a mischievous vixen appeare ...
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Ambitious musical innovation is always a thrilling prospect. Monteverdi was so keen on it that, in the early 1600s, he came up with Orfeo in a new, experimental art form that combined words and drama ...
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