Will Todd’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s acclaimed children’s story, with a libretto by Maggie Gottlieb, frames the story by having its events issue as an apparent dream whilst Alice is taken by her parents to a pet shop during a rainy school summer holiday, and a rabbit starts to talk to her. The well-known characters …
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Verismo (realism or true) opera is often derided for its sensationalism that is not, in fact, very true to real life. However, the high society assassination in Tsarist Russia that is the starting point for Giordano’s Fedora (1898) – first suspected to be for political motives, but turns out to be the result of a duel of honour …
Two operas here – one written over a century before the present day, the other nearly two centuries ago – show that women dealing with ‘toxic masculinity’ is nothing new, however apparently comic their situations. Although both also owe something to the earlier traditions of eighteenth-century opera buffa (a genre in which women first came to speak …
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