Shakespeare’s Othello is one of the great crimes passionnels. Othello loved not wisely but too well. Persuaded that his newly wed wife, Desdemona, whom he adores, is having an affair with Cassio, a yo ...
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Dr Ignaz Semmelweiss (1818-1865), the Hungarian surgeon, physicist, scientist, now recognised as a pioneer of antiseptic policy, was unacknowledged in his lifetime and died in a lunatic asylum. In 184 ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Touching the Void at Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2 In 1985 Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, two experienced mountaineers, climbed the unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande in the ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Orpheus in the Underworld at London Coliseum The first great full-length classical French operetta was Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and it premiered in Pa ...
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