The Broadway musical astonishes us by its continued existence. Thrown off balance first by the talkies, then by television—not to mention the pop-music revolution of the sixties, which quickly made ...
Despite its curtain raising rather late in the year, Shanghai's new opera house has elbowed its way to the front row of ...
Erich Wolfgang Korngold famously wrote music for films and, in a sense, the 20th century was his largest score. The Austrian Jewish composer lived and worked through times of profound upheaval: two ...
On October 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the representatives of the People’s Republic of China as China’s legitimate representatives at the UN. Resolution 2758 ...
The Best Italian Restaurants in MelbourneA Venetian-inspired diner, a northern Italian spot with its own “pasta lab”, a Melbourne icon around since '86 and many more. There’s no denying Melbourne ...
In the 1950s, Elizabeth David used her food column in British Vogue to introduce readers to a wondrous European ingredient: spaghetti. Cut to 2026, and the best Italian restaurants in London serve ...
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges fencing with cross-dressing French diplomat and spy the Chevalière d’Éon, as depicted in a 1789 painting by Abbé Alexandre-Auguste Robineau Just as a new film about the ...
Operetta was still so popular that there were two amateur companies, competing with each other in our small provincial Flemish town. As soon as I could read, one of my tasks was to rehearse my ...
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