The second production of the ENO’s new season, shown on the same week as “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” is…
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The ENO began its 2015/16 opening season with Shostakovich’s ‘tragic – satire opera’ Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934) which caused…
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        “The secret of love is greater than the secret of death,” sings Salome, late in Strauss’…
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Any opera with a rape as its central dramatic event is bound to be a little twisted. That’s Rigoletto in…
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Alejandro Escuer’s Mexico City-based quintet Onix Ensamble —  Escuer, flute; Fernando Dominguez, clarinet; Edith Ruiz, piano; Abel Romero, violin; Edgardo…
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We like to think that chamber music is an acquired taste but what is chamber music but music played in…
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“Life is but a game” is a famous proverb in Russia, which derives from Tchaikovsky’s penultimate opera. It is a…
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