Giuseppe Verdi knew his opera of love, war, revenge and death was old-fashioned but he also knew that old-fashioned 19th century audiences loved arias, romantic melodramas and songs lavished with melo ...
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SCOTTISH BALLET’S THE FAIRY’S KISS (YouTube for free) In 2017 five major ballet companies celebrated the life and work of Sir Kenneth Macmillan (1929-1992). Scottish Ballet resurrected his little perf ...
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THE MAGIC FLUTE, Mozart’s most successful opera, premiered in Vienna in September 1791. Ten weeks later he was dead. He was just 35. Harmony, truth, friendship, enlightenment and redemption: what more ...
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Giselle, the most famous of all ballets of the Romantic era, and one of the definitive statements on heartbreak, was conceived by Theophile Gautier as a showcase for the great Carlotta Grisi and premi ...
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