When Verdi was asked which of his operas was his favourite he replied Rigoletto. The premiere in 1851 was a huge success with the public and has remained so ever since. Whenever ENO was strapped for c ...
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The orchestra joined the singers on stage in the curtain call for a united front. The audience made it abundantly clear they were on ENO’s side. Like everybody else I am shocked by the possibility of ...
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For those who like a good ghost story Henry James’s chilling novella, published in 1898, is one of the very best. Oscar Wilde was greatly impressed by it and thought it “the most wonderful, lurid, poi ...
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