A Guest Post by Project Co-Director, Professor William Everett Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet is in many ways an ode to the world of romantic operetta. In 1929, when the show first appeared, operetta was all too often thought of as embodying some sort of sentimental nostalgia for a time entrenched in the pathos of nevermore. Ivor Novello (1893-1951), who like Coward was an actor, composer, and singer, wrote to the s…
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