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Hitting the bottle Feature

Hitting the bottle

From beans to new lovers and a tot of house red, Opera Holland Park’s Anna Picard takes a look at opera’s most useful life lessons. 

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On the shelf Feature

On the shelf

Which opera features in Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary? At which opera did Clarissa Dalloway swoon? Which opera is mentioned in On the Road and the second chapter of The Forsyte Saga? Anna Picard looks at opera in literature and letters, highlighting some forgotten gems. 

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Pirates to Penzance Feature

Pirates to Penzance

Read an interview with the team involved in Pirates to Penzance, our recent intergenerational Inspire project which took Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates to Penzance to care homes and schools across the South West.

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