It was in the 1870s that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky poured his glorious, emotionally charged music into the drama of Eugene Onegin and his world of thwarted romance, the opera was first performed in Mos ...
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Opera North has designed this red-blooded double bill to bring twice the thrill. And so it does – in ways both wonderful and weird. Set in different times and places, each one-act opera revolves aroun ...
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QUEEN of SPADES (StudioCanal.) This excellent British melodrama, directed by Thorold Dickenson in 1948, is based on Pushkin’s 1834 novel and excellently acted. Faro, a once famous card gambling game, ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Amadeus at National Theatre/Olivier Peter Shaffer died earlier in the year, aged 90. Michael Longhurst’s highly original revival of his masterpiece is timely and is clearly goin ...
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