Manchester International Festival 2011: Damon Albarn's modern opera

Damon Albarn's new show explores the Elizabethan thinker and magician John DeeJohn Dee was born in 1527 to one of Henry VIII's courtiers. Growing up with a voracious intellect, he collected a huge library of rare and esoteric material over his lifetime. He was the premier Elizabethan mathematician, navigator, astrologer and secret agent, who called for both geographical and cosmological revolution. But Dee is best known for his active involvement in the occult. He foresaw what he called "the end...

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