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Meet the king of comic opera 

John Savournin is a singer and comic actor of irrepressible charisma, but also an artistic director of deliriously inventive small-scale comic opera

Richard Bratby
John Savournin as the Dame in his opera company’s panto production Buttons: A Cinderella Story 
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