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…an unkind voice might say, ‘is there any?’ Well, there wasn’t much after Henry Purcell (1659-1695) whose ‘Dido and Aeneas’ is the first English opera and is still performed and recorded. He composed in the Italian baroque style; together with his church and state music, there are five masques- more theatre music than opera. The log gap that followed his short life extends right down to the twentieth century, unless we include the operas of George Frederic Handel whom we have met, but though living in England, was German by birth. There has been a marked revival of many of