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12 March 2016

9:00 AM

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

Asked recently whether I thought Opera on the Harbour was really opera, I replied emphatically that it is. No one would question whether the Verona Arena Opera Festival is really opera, or the Bregenz Festival with its floating stage or Rome Opera’s summer season at the Baths of Caracalla. They are all ‘really opera’ and Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour ranks with them.

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