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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THere there is magic in the air at this year's Buxton Festival - and it's not just hops from the local brewery. Witches, witches and fairies curse and enchant their way through a trilogy of operas from three different centuries. Handel and Pauline Viardot are looking after the 18th and 19th cycles respectively, but bringing the cauldron to a boil is Francesca Caccini's La Liberazione di Ruggiero of 1625 – the oldest surviving opera by a woman.It was first performed at…

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Opera,Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: pEtro Metastasio's tale of the dirty deeds of the ancient Olympic Games proved so popular that more than 60 composers composed it, including Caldara (for whom it was written), Vivaldi and Cherubini. Pergolesi's version, first performed in 1735 and revived in 1937, is among the best, heralding what should have been a glorious operatic career had the composer not died at the age of 26.Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: The OlympicsThe story begins when the formidable Megacle is persuaded to compete disguised as…

🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture,Jurassic Park,Peaky Blinders ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “Even as a child, I recognized his quality.”Always the best... Sam Neill in Reilly: Ace of Spies. Image: Fremantle Media/ShutterstockI absolutely loved Sam Neill. I first saw it in Reilly: Ace of Spies, and even as a kid, I recognized its quality. To me, he was always the best at whatever he was at. And to do this consistently over decades is an accomplishment. You could see the flash when he was playing Sam. Perhaps he took his work…

✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Claudia Winkleman,BBC,Strictly Come Dancing,The Traitors,Entertainment TV,Media,Reality TV,Television,Culture,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When the BBC revealed Claudia Winkleman was getting her own chat show, she self-deprecated her brand to note that it "could be painful". However, after just one series, the presenter - not the audience or guests - found the show to be a major ordeal.The gorgeous host of The Traitors and former Strictly Come Dancing presenter has left The Claudia Winkleman Show after just one series, saying she was “too nervous to enjoy” conversations…

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Ava DuVernay,Netflix,Documentary films,US news,Film,Culture,Trump administration 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has produced a documentary for Netflix about the 14th Amendment, which gave freedom and rights to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, and has come under legal attack from Donald Trump.Netflix said on Thursday that it will release the 14th installment later this year. The film will mark a return to nonfiction for DuVernay, the director of Selma and Origin, and a follow-up to DuVernay's 2016 film 13th, her examination of…