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The Cunning Little Vixen

Mel Cooper
The Longborough Opera Festival ends its season every year with a show that highlights young professionals just starting their careers in opera, and th...
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Cosi fan Tutte: Woman are Human

Mel Cooper
Women are Human at Longborough Because of the pandemic, the Longborough Opera Festival has come up with an ingenious solution to allow them to hav...
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L’Elisir d’Amore

Mel Cooper
I’ve just been watching the streaming of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore from the Met and wish it was going to be up for another week or more! That woul...
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We Will Rock You

Mel Cooper
If you have any interest at all in the world and music of Queen, if you like good rock of any sort, then this show is, as a friend of mine used to say...
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The Whip

Mel Cooper
My first impression of The Whip, newly commissioned from Juliet Gilkes Romero by the RSC, was that it was a sensitive, intelligent and intentionally t...
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Educating Rita

Mel Cooper
To mark the 40th anniversary of Willy Russell’s accomplished play Educating Rita, a fine and faithful production is touring the land. The play is a...