THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Rossini’s sparkling comic masterpiece, dashed off in less than three weeks when he was but 25-years-old, had a disastrous first night in Rome in 1816. The strings of a guitar br ...
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John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, directed by Colin Graham and conducted by James Levine, premiered at The Metropolitan, New York in 1991. Corigliano had long wanted to write an opera buffo ...
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Cinderella has been a popular pantomime ever since its very first spectacular production in 1830 at Drury Lane starring Joseph Grimaldi, the great clown of the Regency era. There have been many versio ...
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