There had been so much death and heartache during the six long years of war between 1939 and 1945 that people were sick of it.

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What a wonderful week of opera it has been for me, with Opera Holland Park’s opening production of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West on Tuesday preceded a few days earlier by two other masterpieces from ...