Overture and Beginners: Even grand opera is booming, with a new prima donna... the perfect Valkyrie..
... Overture and Beginners Even grand opera is booming, with a new prima donna the perfect Valkyrie FORTY-TWO theatres closed down during the summer. Forty-two have opened again. When I read the preliminary puffs that enliven the theatre pages of the flimsier Parisian evening papers, I thought: what optimists these footlight merchants are, since surely theatre-going is a winter pastime. I was ...