Poulenc’s one-woman opera La Voix Humaine opens with a woman, Elle, sitting alone, waiting for her lover to ring. She swings from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMGarsington Opera’s Le Nozze di Figaro is a glorious indulgence for the eye and ear. From the first scene to the last,
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMThe inspiration for Jonathan Dove’s opera The Day After, being given its UK premiere by English National Opera, is the Greek myth
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMCimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto was the runaway hit of 1792 following its first performance before Emperor Leopold II, who insisted upon an
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMOne of the themes of Puccini’s masterwork, Tosca, is the powerlessness of an ordinary person who gets caught up in the machinery
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMFor anyone fed up with the Christmas season’s compulsory cheeriness, Scenes from the End, a visceral exploration of loss and grieving, may
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMThe two one-act operas presented by Shadwell Opera boast many obvious similarities: Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Mark Anthony Turnage’s Twice Through the
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