28-year-old Giuseppe Verdi in 1842 at La Scala in Milan had a big success with his biblical epic, Nabucco; and not least because of the ensembles which made a tremendous impact. Va, Pensiero, the poig ...
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I REMEMBER MAMA (BBC iPlayer). John Van Druten’s comedy was based on Kathryn Forbes’s short stories, Mama’s Bank Account, which were nostalgic portraits of a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisc ...
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George Bernard Shaw wrote Caesar and Cleopatra in 1898 and modelled it on the then-fashionable pseudo-historical dramas of the day. It was conceived on the grand scale as a spectacular production for ...
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American composer John Adams’ Doctor Atomic dramatises the events which led to the first atom bomb test in Los Alamos, New Mexico in July 1945. The destruction and radioactive debris the bomb would ca ...
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