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The Moderate Soprano (Paperback, Main)
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The Moderate Soprano (Paperback, Main)
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List price R308
Loot Price R278
Discovery Miles 2 780
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I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs
cheering up. I'm the man to do it. A man of great passions, John
Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting
a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos. Now, in
1934, this Etonian science teacher's admiration for the works of
Wagner has led him to embark on the construction of an opera house
on his Sussex estate. Then, by chance, he hears word of a group of
refugees from Nazi Germany who may perhaps deliver his vision of
the sublime - assuming they're willing to cast his wife in the
lead. David Hare's The Moderate Soprano tells the story of how
Glyndebourne, this most English of institutions, derives its
character firstly from a woman and secondly from an Austrian and
two Germans. The play premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2015, and
opened at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in April 2018. 'In
the grand tradition of Bulgakov's Black Snow, a penetrating way of
investigating the politics of life in general through the troubled
internal politics of a particular theatrical institution. Fervently
recommended.' Independent 'A loving portrayal of the mix of vision,
stubbornness, grit, love and luck that can produce great art.'
Financial Times
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