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Elvis Costello to perform in his opera about Hans Christian Andersen
From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20051004
Author:JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press Writer
JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-04-2005
Dateline: COPENHAGEN, Denmark
Elvis Costello will take the stage in Copenhagen this weekend for the premiere of his opera "The Secret Arias," which is based on Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen's impossible romance with a Swedish soprano.
The opera tells of a three-way drama between Andersen, Jenny Lind _ dubbed the "Swedish Nightingale" _ and her American impresario, Phineas Taylor Barnum, who brought Lind to New York for her first American concert tour in 1850.
Costello will play both Andersen and Barnum, while ...
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