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Popcorn with your Puccini: can opera on screen ever work?

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Composers have harnessed TV and cinema since Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors pulled in five million viewers 75 years ago but for my money Kombat Opera’s satire showed us how to do it best It’s…

The Guardian United Kingdom · 21 October 2026

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