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...aficionados will be disappointed that David McVicar’s production of Don Carlo, new in February, comes back shorn of its idyllic first act depicting the Spanish infante and his designated bride, Elisabeth of Valois...
...Sonya Yoncheva is lovely as Elisabeth de Valois who, destined to marry Carlos, is constrained instead to marry his father, Philip, devastating both the young lovers....
...Carved in wood or modelled in plaster and painted, they include Edward III, Henry VII and Catherine de Valois, wife of Henry V....
...As for Lionel Asbo being a V sign to the UK, “What seems to have been lost is that it’s actually a very affectionate portrait of England. It’s not a hate-filled jeremiad....
...Ninette de Valois, already thinking of an “English ballet” (which would become our national ballet), joined Diaghilev’s company in 1923 for two formative years....
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