As well as covering her time in Downing Street, the opera aims to explore the Iron Lady's character and personality away from the public gaze. "I feel she really lends herself to operatic treatment.

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All the more amazing, then, that a 58-year-old, 5-ft. 1-in. woman can. But then, Opera Director Margherita Wallmann does not map her strategy in the thick of enemy attack but to the friendly ...