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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Alan Bennett is on record as saying to Nicholas Hytner, who directed the premiere at the National Theatre in 1991 that he thought The Madness of George III unstageable. The text, with its numerous sho ...
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This performance of Frederick Ashton’s ballet at the Royal Opera House with Marianela Nunez, Carlos Acosta, Will Tuckett and Jonathan Howells dates from 2005. The original scenario was created by Jean ...
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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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