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Opera - who understudies the understudy?

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Should the audience have its ticket fee refunded if the tenor can not sing during an opera performance?

Alice Jones of the Independent discusses what should be done when the understudy has to understudy the understudy because the main stars have been taken ill.

And you can tell us your stories of operatic - and other - performances which did not turn out as expected.


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