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In 1980 I conducted Die Meistersinger in a hall on the Mile End Road, and a critic observed that Wagner can indeed travel east of Aldgate. Everything here is a footnote to that.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

At the end of a science PhD I conducted Die Meistersinger in a hall on the Mile End Road — a year learning an opera I didn't know a note of, then four hours in the pit, and still one of the most useful things I've done.