Julian Hope obituary

Opera director and grandson of Somerset Maugham who brought about a revival of his ancestor's worksThe opera director Julian Hope, who has died aged 59 of cancer, became in latter years the steward of his grandfather Somerset Maugham's literary estate. He had an encyclopedic memory for detail. As his friend the conductor Jane Glover put it, "there was no 'delete' in that brain". The hesitant, quietly-spoken authority which gave him an air of maturity as a young man never lost its underlying yo...

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