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Performer: Elaine Tate

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland impresses audience of all ages

Alice's story in a sparkling outdoor production for families, which will not disappoint mainstream opera enthusiasts.
****1
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Rarely seen in captivity: Vaughan Williams' opera Hugh the Drover

We are in a small Cotswold market town in 1810. It's the height of the Napoleonic wars, fear of Bonapartist spies abounds. A stranger rolls into town - a roving man whose profession is rounding up wild horses for the military - and wins the hand of the daughter of the town Constable in a bare knuckle prize fight. Somehow, you just know that there's going to be trouble.
***11
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A Sexy and Spirited Semele

No wonder the 1744 audience was shocked by this “oratorio” which, far from drawing on Biblical themes, displays before us the sexual misdemeanor of the immortal Jove, with a mortal, Semele.
****1
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