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Our ‘planning an opera season’ feature seems welltimed given the number of 18/19 announcements that continue to flow in. For some years now the opera company PR lexicon has seized on the buzzword ‘flexibility’—of venue, of scale, of musical and presentational style. For me, this trend hit home last May when I attended Opera

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