A doddery old man makes a bargain with Mephistopheles. He will give him his soul if he will give him back youth and the passionate pleasures that go with it. So, what’s new? The story has often been t ...
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ROMEO AND JULIET, the most popular love story in the world, has inspired so many plays, novels, poems, operas, musicals, symphonies, paintings, sculptures and films. I had the opportunity to see Shake ...
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It is hard to believe that Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème could have failed at its premiere in Turin in 1896, when it was conducted by the 28-year-old Toscanini. It’s one of the great tearjerkers of all ...
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Evidently not Wayne McGregor. Many others have attempted to stage and film her works and failed. McGregor’s three one-act ballets inspired by her novels, Mrs Dalloway, ...
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