THE MILLIONAIRESS (YouTube). Bernard Shaw’s didactic farce, written in 1936 when he was 80 and seen on BBC television in 1972, is one of his poorest plays. Maggie Smith, highly mannered, very theatric ...
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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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Stanley Kubrick’s classic black comedy and political satire, Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, premiered in 1964 at the height of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile C ...
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La Fille mal gardée sounds like the title of a naughty French boulevard farce, but Frederick Ashton’s ballet, designed by Osbert Lancaster, could not be more English. Pastorally pure and innocent, it ...
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