Akram Khan’s Giselle, which premiered in 2016 and has been seen all over the world, is poles apart from the classic Giselle balletgoers know from Mary Skeaping’s much-loved production. Khan’s version ...
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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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There have been many versions of Cinderella over the centuries, going right back to Strabo in the first century AD and coming right up to Andrew Lloyd Webber in the present day. Gioachino Rossini’s bu ...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s best-selling 1942 novella is a children’s book for adults. It has been translated into nearly as many languages as the Bible and has been adapted for stage and film multiple ...
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