Bridgewater Hall
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Continuing the wonderful partnership that is English National Opera (ENO) with Greater Manchester, last night saw the first of two performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comic production Così fan tutte. Now, readers, this translates to Thus Do All (Women). And in this context, what it is that all women supposedly do is not the best. Ferrando and…
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Verdi’s Aida is admittedly one of the operas I knew little about, in terms of both narrative and its musical score. An opera in four acts, Aida is set in Egypt at the time of the Pharoahs. The priesthood, through its self-proclaimed ability to interpret the gods’ will, controls the government and have long been…
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