In another concert, a Korean opera singer residing in Japan revived a popular opera based on a Korean romantic folk tale.

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The director Ashutosh Gowariker crosses a lavish romantic epic with a muscular adventure tale and comes up with an outrageously buoyant hybrid.

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The Guardsman is a delightful tale of romantic deception.

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It was a clever way to inject some vigor into the opera's second half and supply a modern twist to this old Romantic cautionary tale.

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The next year she received a romantic mainstay, jewelry, and they remain together today to happily tell the tale of their first gifting mix-up.

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