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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										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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										STAND BY (Netherlands Dans Theater). The company’s 60th birthday celebration has to be on-line rather than on-stage because of the coronavirus crisis. Paul Lightfoot, artistic director, and Solo Leon, ...									
								
								
									
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