Blue is an American protest opera about police violence and about how to live with a black body in a white world. Blue is the colour of a policeman’s uniform. The black community has no faith in the l ...
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Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard premiered with great success in 1888, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee when the nation was being very patriotic and nostalgic for Ye Olde Engl ...
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Nov 7, 2022
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MY FAIR LADY premiered in New York in 1956 and in London in 1958; and then there was the George Cukor film in 1964. 60 years on it is amazing how time has not erased memories of Rex Harrison, Julie An ...
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I came to Paul Ruders’ opera totally fresh, having not read Margaret Atwood’s1985 futuristic dystopian novel and neither having seen the1990 film nor the TV series. The opera premiered in Copenhagen i ...
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