Bianca e Fernando

When the 26-year-old Bellini was asked to write an opera for the new theatre in Genoa, time was short so he adapted his previous opera Bianca

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Paradise Now!

Employment can be difficult and precarious. Many of the strikes now taking place are about employers trying to increase profits by changes to working practices,

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Christmas Eve

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve premièred in 1895 and is based on a short story by Gogol called The Night Before Christmas. It’s a warm, optimistic,

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Who’s Holiday

Drag Race star Miz Cracker has forsaken her native New York City drag scene to make her UK acting début in the European première of Who’s Holiday.

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Is That A Bolt In Your Neck?

Take sinister goings-on at the castle on the hill above an Eastern European village, a mad professor, locals brandishing pitchforks (and rabbits), misogyny, a Cambridge

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Mavra/Iolanta

Tchaikovsky was one of the dedicatees of Stravinsky’s mini-opera Mavra and the 30-minute folk tale from Pushkin is a perfect companion piece for the earlier

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Jack and the Beanstalk

There was an explosion of energy when Evolution’s Jack and the Beanstalk was performed at the Lyceum last night. Actors, ensemble and musicians were supercharged and delighted

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