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Some older operas have been cancelled as too offensive or adapted to seem less oldfashioned and misogynistic to modern opera goers.
But acclaimed Australian-born soprano Danielle de Niese is urging Christmas Day TV viewers to tune in to see her Glyndebourne production of The Merry Widow for a different take.
Instead of doom and gloom, and helpless tragic female characters, this Merry Widow is a laugh-outloud operetta.
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