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“Wow!/ What’s this nonsense/ Need I say it?/ What’s all this shartin/ Rawpin’ and screaming?” This is Rossini’s transcription through the Yorkshire dialect, via the poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan. His masterful adaptation Barber of SevilleThe opera, written for Bradford as part of a new opera festival, was premiered there in the Victorian splendor of… Read More »