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Charlotte Betts-Dean (Balthasar's Queen) & Robert Campbell (Balthasar) in Victorian Opera's 'The Play of Daniel'
Tiffany Speight, playing Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress 2012"Anne does go for the good looking bad boy," Tiffany Speight confides in a break between rehearsals of The Rake's Progress, "but there's a lot more to it than that." Tiffany explains that Anne is a woman very aware of her responsibilities to her father, who also constantly struggles to look after the man she is in love with, despite Tom Rakewell's spectacular fall from grace. "She's somewhere between completely understandable and completely frustrating," Tiffany says, describing the way Anne never gives up on Tom , forgives all of his treacheries and nurses him in her arms in the heartbreaking final scene of the opera.
Anne Trulove's shoes, The Rake's Progress 2012Will Anne Trulove's shoes dry in time for the opening of The Rake's Progress this Saturday??
The marriage of Yusuf and Zulaykha, from Jami, Yusuf u Zulaykha, 1595 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. The State Library of Victoria opens its exhibition, Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond today. In the first part of the Two Part series, we chatted to co-curators Susan Scollay and Clare Williamson about the exhibtion, what audiences can expect and the stories behind the Persian manuscripts.
