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Sat 05 May 2009Take your seat for a night at the opera
As England’s Glyndebourne festival gets under way, opera novice CONOR POWERpreviews some of the year’s main events
DEVOTEES of opera have a passion and knowledge that are in direct and inverse proportion to the puzzlement and plain lack of interest of those who aren’t affected by its charms. I have come across opera fanatics whose obsessions would leave even the most hardened rock fans looking like a bunch of blubbering teeny-boppers.
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