The Doctor's Tale: Barking up the right tree

When Anne Dudley asked Terry Jones to write the libretto for her first opera, she wasn't expecting the story of a medically qualified dogOutside, in an unloved part of London, it's raining cats and dogs. Inside a nondescript community centre, a dog in a doctor's white coat is holding afternoon surgery. He cures the ailments of a range of patients, who sit in the waiting room singing of his extraordinary skill ("I know he's a bit gruff/ But he really knows his stuff"). You won't perhaps be surpri...

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