If music be the food of love, play on. The play’s opening line is set to music and repeated again and again throughout Des McAnuff’s production which was seen at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, ...
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Henry Purcell (1639-1693) wrote one true opera, Dido and Aeneas and a number of semi-operas, including The Fairy Queen, which premiered at the Dorset Theatre, London, in 1692. The score was lost after ...
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Brett Dean and his librettist Matthew Jocelyn turned Hamlet into an opera. Vladimir Jurkowski conducted The London Philharmonic Orchestra. Neil Armfield’s production, which he also designed, has a cle ...
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Whenever Shakespeare’s farce is performed it invariably gets a bad press and not just from feminists. Political correctness has kept the play off the stage in North America. What is your attitude towa ...
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