PARTENOPE, Handel’s bitter, witty and ironic comedy of sexual intrigue, jealousy and rage, premiered in London in 1730. Four years earlier the erotic libretto had been deemed entirely unsuitable for t ...
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Shakespeare’s Othello is one of the great crimes passionnels. Othello loved not wisely but too well. Persuaded that his newly wed wife, Desdemona, whom he adores, is having an affair with Cassio, a yo ...
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Carlos Acosta, artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, aims to get new audiences with a fusion of classical ballet and heavy metal music. Two incompatible worlds collide. The production celebrat ...
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Jean Genet (1910-1986), delinquent, thief, poet, novelist, playwright, political activist, spent much of his early life in reformatories and prison. He briefly joined the Foreign Legion only to be dis ...
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