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Fri 01 Jan 2010A lusty opera brings back chaste memories
LAST SATURDAY I headed west, to watch the opera, Carmen, transmitted live from the Met in New York, to a cinema in Galway. I thought it might relieve the claustrophobia that overwhelms me every winter, writes MICHAEL HARDING
My mistake was that I didn’t get out of Ireland years ago, and fly like a moth to some blazing centre of enlightenment, such as Paris or Berlin; instead I got stuck, up to my neck, in the dregs of an exhausted culture that reinvented itself as the Celtic Tiger. But at least Mullingar is 50 km closer to Paris than Drumshanbo is; so I am making progress.
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