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The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12770942" target="_blank">BBC News</a> web site reports:
<p id="story_continues_1"><em>Singer Damon Albarn has written and will appear in a new opera about a 16th Century alchemist, astrologer and spy.</em>
<em>'Doctor Dee', about Elizabeth I's scientific and medical adviser Dr John Dee, comes four years after Albarn staged the Chinese opera Monkey.
</em><em>'Doctor Dee' will receive its premiere at the Manchester International Festival, which takes place in June and July.</em></p>
<em><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/books/strange-attractor-journal-four/">Strange Attractor Journal Four</a></em> contains the entire 30-page text written by the opera's first author, Alan Moore, before he left the project last year.

It's a remarkable, vivid and illuminating piece of work and it'll be interesting to see how Damon Albarn's version holds up to the immense promise held by Alan's original.

[Illustration by Arik Roper]

Thanks Julian House!

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