William Shakespeare. John Dryden. George Frideric Handel. Bernard Shaw. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. They have all been there. It was probably a mistake on my part to go straight from David Mc ...
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George Frideric Handel’s Rodelinda, a masterpiece of Baroque opera, premiered in London in 1725. This production, directed by Stephen Wadsworth and conducted by Harry Bickett, premiered at The Metropo ...
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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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SALOME, Oscar Wilde’s pseudo-biblical shocker, based on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, was written in French in Paris in 1890, under the heady influence of Flaubert, Maeterlinck, Mallarme, Mor ...
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