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Wagner is coming to a London park

Wagner is coming to a London park

Holland Park Opera will put on its first Wagner production this summer.

It’s the Flying Dutchman, not much there to frighten the Kensington toffs.

Paul Carey Jones will sing the title role, Eleanor Dennis plays Senta.

Julia Burbach is the director. Peter Selwyn conducts.

Bayreuth in a London borough, who’d have thought?

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