EMMA (Universal Pictures). “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” said Jane Austen. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich, snobbish, spoiled, conceited, patronising and ...
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Jules Massenet’s Thais premiered in Paris in 1894 and was revised in 1898. The opera is based on Anatole France’s best-selling novel which was published in 1890. Religious eroticism is always good for ...
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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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