You're not too likely to encounter the music of Auber in today's opera houses and concert halls. Well, not in this country, although a few months back Belgium's Royal Wallonie Opera resuscitated his ...

AS IN TV, ratings play a part in the Wexford Festival, with opera-lovers happy to give their preferences. The fun begins after the dress rehearsals and continues for the next 18 nights. Two out of ...

“We are dancing on a volcano,” the Comte de Salvandy said to the Duc d’Orléans, in May, 1830, at a grand ball at the Palais-Royal, during the final weeks of the Bourbon monarchy. The phrase has ...

In the summer of 1830, King William I of the Netherlands scheduled a multi-day birthday bash in Brussels, and he expected everybody in the city to join in the fun. The celebration, however, would not ...

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