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Eight hours, 250 singers… and as many bananas as it takes: Tavener’s Veil of the Temple

found 2025 › Jul › 18 (Fri) @ 07:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

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Who’d be brave enough to programme John Tavener’s choral epic? We talk to the team behind the staging that’s opening this year’s Edinburgh international festival, and veterans of its 2003 premiere re…