One of Gluck's rivals in 1770s Paris was André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), best known as a composer of lightish operas that were hugely admired in his day by Marie Antoinette among others. Such ...
The rolling waves of Jean Racine's mighty alexandrines have not crashed upon our shores for many years, and not least among the serious pleasures of Cheek by Jowl's Andromaque – co-produced with Peter ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Racine is not what you might call an amenable playwright. Written in Alexandrine couplets, his plays observe the ...
IT TAKES plenty of risks, the 45-minute version of Racine’s great 17th-century tragedy Andromaque that marks the end of this year’s Play, Pie And Pint summer season of classic cuts. Frances Poet’s ...
If there really is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other, then Andromaque and Hermione appear to have found it. In France Poet's version of Jean Racine's Andromaque, first staged ...
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