The clue to this blockbusting 2017 biopic from director Tom Volf, with commentary by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, is in the title’s preposition, “by”. The highly-praised film, which bowled opera aficionados over on first showing, is currently available on BBC iPlayer until mid-October. Do yourself a favour and prepare for a 1950s and 60s nostalgia romp.
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Many beautiful cities have tried and failed to tame the rowdy crowds.
Long, narrative melodies start, move up, curl back for a few notes, rise again, turn in on themselves, flowing like rivers of beautiful sound to their long conclusion.
“Hub” is a well-established English word, though it wasn’t used by Shakespeare, and wasn’t included by Dr Johnson in his great Dictionary of 1755.
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