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Opera

Birthday boy Rodney Milnes Xerxes (Coliseum) Norma (WNO, Cardiff) Ulicking through the newspaper notices of Handel's birthday week in London over coffee in Florian's and musing......

Theatre

Irish genius Christopher Edwards The Plough and the Stars (Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow) A riot at the Abbey Theatre Dublin greeted the opening of O'Casey's play in 1926, the......