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July 4, 2021 at 12:01 pm

Retooling ‘La Bohème’ for pandemic performances

The global coronavirus outbreak has had a drastic effect on the performing arts, and opera, which is expensive, has suffered hugely. Many of Europe’s major...

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A bronze head of Roman emperor Nero dating from around AD 54-61 and found in the River Alde at Rendham in Suffolk, eastern England, is displayed during a media preview for the “Nero: the man behind the myth” exhibition, at the British Museum in London, Monday, May 24, 2021. The exhibition, which opens to visitors on May 27 and runs until October 24, explores the true story of Rome’s fifth emperor informed by new research and archaeological evidence from the time. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) LMD102 LMD102

May 27, 2021 at 1:28 pm

Rehabilitating Nero, an emperor with a bad rep VIEW

Nero is famed as the emperor who fiddled while Rome burned. But a new British Museum show offers an alternative narrative of a young man...

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Cathy Marston at the Royal Opera House in London, Feb. 11, 2020. Marston choreographed “The Cellist” — a new production that depicts how illness robbed Jacqueline du Pré of her talent and her life. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)

March 2, 2020 at 9:30 pm

A cellist’s tragic tale, told in dance

The story of Jacqueline du Pré, her cello and her husband, conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, told by dance. The tragedy of a star musician,...

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