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...Based on Racine, Magnard’s libretto focuses on the fated relationship between the Judean princess Bérénice and Titus....
...When Catherine the Great of Russia heard of the sale she offered to buy them for £40,000 to furnish the Hermitage in St Petersburg....
...Brought up “too strictly” as a Catholic in a “little, bourgeois milieu”, Kiefer dreamed of France, “spoke like Racine and Corneille” at school, and developed “a genius complex....
...What may seem like a meagre sum is actually about 25 per cent of NAMI-Racine’s operating budget....
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