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Stiffelio, Royal Opera House, London

15 years ago
Gary Hoffman

By Andrew Clark [Financial Times, 23 April 2007]
Sex, sects, adultery and divorce: 21st- century soap opera? No, 19th-century grand opera. We like to think weíre liberated in the way we confront the great moral and social taboos, but Verdi was there before us.

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A Triply Superb ëIl Trittico’
Shrieks and screams over orchestra

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