Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A rare opera needs its champions. Somebody at Opera Holland Park clearly loves Mascagni’s Iris, a pioneering Japanese ...
None is more abused than the heroine of Iris, Pietro Mascagni’s rarely performed tragedy about an innocent Japanese girl abducted into a brothel and driven to commit suicide. Premiered in 1898, six ...
The curtain is going up on an extraordinary, operatic treat at Bard SummerScape. Like the mythic appearance of “Brigadoon” every hundred years, certain operatic flowers only find their full bloom a ...
"Honourably" means, from director Olivia Fuchs's perspective, tackling head-on the distasteful plot in which a girl young enough still to be playing with dollies is drugged and carted off by a ...
Mascagni is something of a speciality at Opera Holland Park, where productions of L’amico Fritz, Zanetto and Cavalleria rusticana have appeared in recent years. The rarely performed Iris, however, has ...
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