The Magic Flute; Faust; Oxford Lieder festival – review

Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Leeds Grand; Holywell Music Room, OxfordIn 1969, when man first walked on the moon, the Beatles said goodbye to live performance and a newborn Ed Miliband said hello, an unknown young man from County Durham made his operatic debut. The lyric baritone Thomas Allen, an acknowledged inspiration for Billy Elliot, was born into a working-class mining community and, encouraged by a perceptive physics teacher who could also sing, found his way to music college and new horizons.M...

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