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Alexander Chancellor: A slice of Italy in Milton Keynes

Britain, like the United States, now seems opera crazy. Good news for me

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

Back home from a week in Italy, I almost feel that I haven’t left. For I go almost at once to Milton Keynes to see Donizetti’s quintessentially Italian opera, L’elisir d’amore. It is a superb, joyous production by the Glyndebourne Tour company, one of which any great international opera house would have been proud.

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