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Next BBC Lebrecht Interview: The opera outsider they could not suppress

Next BBC Lebrecht Interview: The opera outsider they could not suppress

One woman has created more opera companies in Britain than anyone since Georg Frideric Handel.

Her name is Wasfi Kani and the white male establishment has done everything to put her down.

In our conversation this Saturday night, Wasfi talks about being ‘a small brown woman’ who grew up with five siblings in a one-room flat after her family fled anti-Moslem massacres in Delhi.

Wasfi made it to Oxford, went to work in a lucrative industry and then gave it all up to make opera – in prisons, in mansions and now in a country estate.

Listen here. Streaming from Saturday at 10pm.

pictured: Wasfi (front left) with her family outside the Regents Park Mosque.

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