How to survive your first opera

Are you an opera virgin? We suggest how and where to make your own operatic debut. You can even go in jeans …The trickiest part is to escape the prejudice in your own head. For years I'd regarded opera as something my mum and sister did together, an elitist cultural cul-de-sac that had nothing of relevance to say to anyone. Then one day in October 1980 I got a phone call from my sister: my mother was ill and she had a spare ticket to see Verdi's Otello at the Royal Opera House. I replied: "Th...

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