When Verdi was asked which of his operas was his favourite he replied Rigoletto. The premiere in 1851 was a huge success with the public and has remained so ever since. Whenever ENO was strapped for c ...
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Victor Hugo’s epic novel, the story of a French peasant and his desire for redemption after spending nineteen years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving child, was a smas ...
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Rigoletto, one of 26 operas by Giuseppe Verdi, first took to the stage in 1851 and today rides high in the Top Ten most performed operas worldwide. The busy plot revolves around a mocked and maligned ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Notre Dame de Paris at London Coliseum You might have guessed, following the enormous success of Les Miserables, that somebody would also turn Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris ...
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