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Mae’r sioe gerdd glasurol gan Cole Porter Kiss Me, Kate yn parhau â’r thema, yn seiliedig ar ddrama Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew a cheir sioeau gwych eraill hefyd fel Too Darn Hot, Wunderbar, Another Op’nin’ Another Show a Brush up Your Shakespeare.
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Continuing the theme is the classic musical, Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate based on Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew and full of showstoppers including Too Darn Hot, Wunderbar, Another Op’nin’ Another Show and Brush up Your Shakespeare. Kiss Me, Kate is directed by Jo Davies, a specialist in musical theatre and opera. The British première of The Merchant of Venice by André Tchaikowsky, directed by Keith Warner completes the season. Composed by a Polish-Jewish genius, who survived the Holocaust hiding in a wardrobe in a gentile district of Warsaw, Tchaikowsky’s The Merchant of Venice is a powerful and serious attack on prejudice but also contains moments of tender beauty. The opera premieres in the UK, following performances at the Bregenz Festival in Austria originally commissioned by David Pountney. David Pountney said
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