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With regular appearances at the Royal Opera House and English National Opera, Nicky Spence has also sung in venues all over the world. Specialising in psychologically complex roles, he has a particular attraction to the music of Janácek and Wagner, and has sung a good deal of contemporary repertoire. But he also casts his net well beyond the world of classical music. On 24 April he joins soprano Eleanor Dennis and pianist Dylan Perez for

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