Salvatore Sciarrino’s “Venere e Adone,” his 15th opera, premieres this weekend at the Hamburg State Opera. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Città di Castello, Italy and Hamburg, Germany When the ...
It's 1593, theatres in London are closed due to the plague, and William Shakespeare is probably bored and stressed about his future as a playwright. He dedicates a frisky poem to the Earl of ...
(1593). Written by a youthful Shakespeare at the time that London’s theatres closed their doors in fear of the Plague. Venus and Adonis is an epic poem of wit and sensuous beauty. It tells the tale of ...