The composer Joseph Pibbs is working with historian and podcaster Dominic Sandbrook on an opera documenting the decline and fall of the reformist British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Mezzo-soprano Lucy Schauffer will play Mrs T.
No venue has yet been given for the production.
If Nixon in China is anything to go by, it could be a long runner.
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