Gaetano Donizetti wrote 68 operas in 27 years. The Elixir of Love, an opera buffa masterpiece, the most melodious of romantic comedies, was written at speed in six weeks and premiered in Milan in 1832 ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Merry Widow at London Coliseum Franz Lehár’s operetta was an enormous success at its premiere in Vienna in 1905 and its success was repeated in 1907 in London, New Yor ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Turn of the Screw at Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park London NW1 Henry James’s chilling and elusive novella, published in 1898, is one of the great ghost stories and notable ...
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Mature Times reviews Die Fledermaus at the Bristol Hippodrome Welsh National Opera have a justified international reputation for musical excellence and so it’s no surprise that this production of Die ...
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