I suspect that’ll be the case with Jamie Manton’s new staging for the 2019 Buxton Festival. The characters wear the familiar Regency outfits; designer Justin Nardella evokes ballroom and steppe with a ...
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When a young Russian singer suggested to Tchaikovsky in 1877 that he compose an opera based on Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin’s famous novel-in-verse, he dismissed it as a “crazy” idea. “Then, ...
“I recollect the ocean rumbling: / O how I envied then the waves— / Those rushing tides in tumult tumbling / To fall about her feet like slaves!” So begins one of the most memorable cantos of ...