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...As the outcry against Wolf’s jokes gathered momentum last week, though, I could sense Joan Rivers turning in her grave....
...There were the founders – Bill Bernbach, Ned Doyle and Maxwell Dane – several paste-up artists, all male, a female switchboard operator and Robinson....
...Alessandro Corbelli, Donald Maxwell and Dawn French repeat their star cameos. Bruno Campanella is the sparkling conductor....
...The opening performance on Friday was Lucrezia Borgia, not staged in the UK since Joan Sutherland sang it at Covent Garden 30 years ago....
...Donald Maxwell executed her butler’s duties crisply. Alessandro Corbelli made a sly old puppy-dog of Sergeant Sulpice....
...It was last heard at Covent Garden 40 years ago in a now legendary production starring Joan Sutherland and the young Luciano Pavarotti, a pairing that went on to conquer the world....
...that had launched the careers of John Malkovich and Joan Allen....
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