The success of Alan Bennett’s monologue, A Woman of No Importance, with an award-winning performance by Patricia Routledge in 1982, encouraged Bennett to write more monologues for television. TALKING ...
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Evidently not Wayne McGregor. Many others have attempted to stage and film her works and failed. McGregor’s three one-act ballets inspired by her novels, Mrs Dalloway, ...
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Jules Massenet’s lush romantic score has kept Manon in the French repertoire ever since it premiered in Paris in 1884. This production, starring Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Carlo Bosi, Artur Ruc ...
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Camille Saint-Saens had intended to use the Biblical story for an oratorio but his librettist, Ferdinand Lemaire, persuaded him to turn it into an opera and it premiered after a long delay (due to the ...
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