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Puccini's Tosca
Tosca's premiere in Rome in January 1900 was nearly disrupted by a terrorist threat to blow up Italy's King Umberto. Victorien Sardou had written the melodrama for the great …
Mozart's Don Giovanni
With a wealth of famous tunes and meticulous characterisation, Don Giovanni is an undisputed masterpiece created by Mozart out of a thread-bare fairground gig. The Don - for whom …
Lives and Times of the Great Composers
'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy IsaacsMichael Steen's 'Great Composers' was originally published in …
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
Although the story of Figaro's success in preventing the Count of Almaviva's seduction of his fiancee Susanna was politically explosive, it was tolerated in the court of the …
Tchaikovsky
Welcome to The Independent's new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music. Extracted from Michael Steen's book The Lives and …
Rossini's La Cenerentola
Rossini's La Cenerentola (or Cinderella) is one of the most popular comic operas in the classical repertoire - the timeless fairy tale about the triumph of virtue over snobbery. …