The sultan’s favourite wife is caught in flagrante delicto with a Negro slave. Orientalism was in vogue and sex and violence have always been popular, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had a huge success wit ...
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Giacomo Puccini’s Il Trittico had its premiere in New York in 1918. He had long wanted to do a collection of operas in one night. Impresarios are not keen on double-bills, let alone triple bills. Audi ...
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TIMON OF ATHENS is a cynical satire on a hypocritical, money-grabbing society living beyond its means on borrowed credit. I think I am right in saying the only famous person who has ever liked Shakesp ...
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Mata Hari and spying are synonymous. Mata Hari is the ultimate sexually alluring spy. What better title for the box office than Mata Hari? She was born in the Netherlands in 1876. She became a famous ...
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