With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become …
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Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage ⊕⊕
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He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera
Opera has inspired …
6 months ago
UK charity records original music by people living with dementia ○
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Project aims to unlock memories and sensations for participants while creating nine-track CD, recorded at Glyndebourne
On a stage once presided over by Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Renée…
7 months ago
La Bohème – noirish reframing of Puccini’s classic weepy ○
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Floris Visser’s stylish bohemia recalls Brassaï’s Paris, while Puccini’s score is delivered with crispness and elasticity
Ditching the penguin suits and picnic hampers for affordab…
9 months ago
‘The cultural landscape is decimated’: Louise Alder on stage fright, arts funding and the Last Night of the Proms ○
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The great soprano will be the first British singer to top the bill at the Last Night in over a decade. So why does she advise her younger colleagues to leave the country?
It’s the height of the August…
12 months ago
From the sacred to the profane: the Wagners, Bayreuth and Parsifal ○
Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth
When Gly…
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