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First it was Nixon. Now it’s Thatcher: the opera

First it was Nixon. Now it’s Thatcher: the opera

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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