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UK LGBT EVENTS - V&A Museum Exhibition: Opera, Passion, Politics (until 25 February 2018)
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V&A Museum Exhibition: Opera, Passion, Politics (until 25 February 2018)

Together the V&A and the Royal Opera House present a landmark exhibition exploring a vivid story of opera from its origins in late-Renaissance Italy to the present day Throughout, youre hearing sounds so beautiful that its a wrench to leave one historic moment and enter another. You want to stick with what youre hearing. What drives you on is curiosity to see what the clever organisers have come up with next.

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