Hints and tips:
...Simpson prefaces it with a quotation from Robert Browning: “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”...
...It preceded Mark-Anthony Turnage’s much-hyped 2011 docu-opera Anna Nicole by more than 30 years....
...Mark-Anthony Turnage’s much-hyped Anna Nicole (about the ill-fated Texan model who married an oil tycoon 63 years her senior) sold out when it opened at London’s Royal Opera House in 2011....
...Anna Nicole Smith, the, er, titular heroine of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s quasi-opera, was celebrated, also denigrated, for her surgically enhanced physique....
...He has scored music for the choreographer Merce Cunningham, collaborated with the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and is currently writing an opera based on a Strindberg play....
...Robert Jones – with RSC hits, Broadway transfers of Stoppard and Frayn, and West End productions of The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music to his credit – has taken the Koltai route....
...- hero-turned-war-victim Harry Heegan in The Silver Tassie) and John Adams (pioneering nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic)....
...from Carmen, via rarities such as Robert’s aria from Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta....
...Robert McDuffie, the violinist who commissioned the concerto, was its wholehearted advocate here....
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