Attila the Hun might have been hard to stop but Verdi’s opera Attila was stopped in its tracks at the Sydney Opera House on 14 March.
A government edict closed the Opera House and everywhere else. Attila, in a highly acclaimed co-production with La Scala, Milan had been presented only three times before the curtain was brought down on it and the rest of the Summer Season of Opera Australia.
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