PASSIONS OF THE SOUL

and whom he eventually married. Berlioz’s Shakespeare-inspired music includes Roméo et Juliette and the King Lear Overture. He had been contemplating a Romeo and Juliet opera, or an Antony and Cleopatra when the commission for a new opera came from Edouard Bénazet, to inaugurate the new theatre he was building at the fashionable spa in ................
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