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- ↑ "The Moderate Soprano". Hampstead Theatre.
- ↑ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (15 May 2015). "New David Hare play to dramatise the birth of Glyndebourne". The Guardian .
- ↑ Billington, Michael (30 October 2015). "The Moderate Soprano review – sex and the sublime in Hare's moving Glyndebourne play". The Guardian .
- ↑ "DAVID HARE'S THE MODERATE SOPRANO TRANSFERS TO THE WEST END". Hampstead Theatre. December 2017.
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