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Curtain Raisers: “Les Deux Aveugles” and “Cox and Box” At Wilton’s Music Hall

kevin — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:15:27 +0000

Opera della Luna, under the artistic direction of Jeff Clarke, has built a well-deserved reputation for staging inventive productions of

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Post-Lockdown: An Unusual Feast Of Operetta For The United Kingdom

kevin — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:42:11 +0000

The various ‘lockdowns’ that we, in the UK, have lived under for the last 18 months have meant that several productions

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Gilbert & Sullivan At Wilton’s Music Hall: An “HMS Pinafore” Performance To Remember

kevin — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:23:01 +0000

Wilton’s Music Hall is “the most important surviving early music hall to be seen anywhere” (says the Theatres Trust) and

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Offenbach Double-Treat in London: “La belle Hélène” and “Orpheus in the Underworld”

kevin — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:28:18 +0000

With the BBC Proms totally ignoring Offenbach’s bicentenary, it has been left to London’s music colleges, small scale opera companies

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Offenbach And Opera Rara. Or: Waiting For A Recording Of The Original French “Robinson Crusoé”

kevin — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:55:14 +0000

It’s interesting how you can have a full cast recording sitting on your CD shelf for decades, and it never

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“The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief”: First UK Revival Since 1937 At Opera della Luna

kevin — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 10:23:54 +0000

Opera della Luna is a well-established company, specializing in small-scale touring productions of operetta. Having concentrated on Offenbach and Sullivan

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Strauss’s “Spitzentuch der Königin” At Opera della Luna 2017

kevin — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07:33:09 +0000

An interview with Jeff Clarke, artistic director of Opera della Luna, about the company’s planned new production of Johann Strauss’s

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Sex, Gender, Gay Marriage And Modernity In Offenbach’s “Isle of Tulipatan” and “Croquefer”

kevin — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:00:40 +0000

Jeff Clarke has been the Artistic Director of UK’s Opera della Luna since 1994. With that company, he has made

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“Orphee Aux Enfers” At Iford Festival: An Enjoyable Romp

kevin — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:12:38 +0000

The UK based company Opera della Luna has just presented their version of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at the

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