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Sir Michael Palin's play 'The Weekend' gets a jazzy premiere as a new opera

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September 22, 2021

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Actor Michael Palin brings us a new version of his play ‘The Weekend’- adapted into a jazz infused comic opera.

The former Monty Python performer told Sky's Dermot Murnaghan that his musical performance peak experience was singing the 'Lumberjack' song at the Royal Albert Hall, and since he has retired his vibrato.

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