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This has been another breathless survey, and lots of important people have been haunting me because they were not included. The two earlier articles on Zarzuela and references to de Falla gave some space to Spain, but I omitted Bizet in the French blog, although I had included him in the ‘French Connection 1’ article earlier. Saint Saens’s ‘Samson et Dalila’ ; Massenet’s ‘Manon’ too are important for themselves as well as for their contribution to the development of lyric opera. And then the Russians were left out altogether, whereas Glinka’s ‘A Life for the Tsar’ in 1836 was perhaps