Robert Thicknesse on Opera
Dec 23, 2020
3 minutes
Auberon Waugh, or one of that gang, who pointed out that there’s nothing like Mozart’s well-known Classic FM standby for gradually but catastrophically lowering the spirits. This would-be jubilant peroration is a handy flag-waver for stuff we greet with open hearts, and even quite enjoy to begin with, but soon realise we need to strangle or beat to death — the chief example being the period of Yuletide revelry which, for the first time in centuries, has been made so happily optional this year.
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