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PRE-OPERA TALK 6.15pm–6.45pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: Free Fascinating insights into the creation of this year’s operas.
FRIENDS’ DRINKS RECEPTION Old Hall Hotel 6.15pm–7pm Tickets: £10 Come and enjoy a preperformance drink and nibbles with Festival Friends in the historic Old Hall Hotel just opposite the theatre.
IRMA KURTZ My Life in Agony 4.30pm–5.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10 As Cosmopolitan’s professional agony aunt for the last 40 years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the changing mores and attitudes in British and American society. Now she looks back on the seismic transformations that have taken place over the last four decades: from mother-daughter relationships through to eating disorders, from office politics to those perennial areas of interest: love and sex.
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TONIGHT’S OPERA
THE JACOBIN 7.15pm–10pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£59 (see p.6)
JOE STILGOE & NATALIE WILLIAMS 9pm–10.30pm Pavilion Café Tickets: £18 Joe Stilgoe returns to the Pavilion Café, joined by MOBO-nominated singer-songwriter, Natalie Williams. Now in the seventh year of running and hosting her monthly residency, Soul Family Sundays, at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Natalie has toured extensively around the globe, performing at a number of the world’s leading live music events including opening the London Jazz Festival (2009) at the Barbican with Guy Barker’s Jazz Voice, Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Glastonbury Festival, the Royal Jubilee Pageant and at the Royal Albert Hall for the Urban Music Prom. Whether she’s featuring as a sensational singer-songwriter, producer, promoter, or champion of burgeoning talent, she’ll forever be the epitome of a true artist. Sponsored by
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