Take your seats for Swindon: the Opera

Production with 250-strong cast and crew made up of local people shines spotlight on working-class family lifeAt the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden they are staging grand classical works created by Verdi and Berlioz that follow the fortunes of kings, queens and valiant warriors. Eighty miles down the M4, the subject matter is rather more down to earth: roundabouts, car factories and the challenge of working-class family life in a provincial town following the death of heavy industry.This weeke...

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