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Opera Collective Ireland’s staging of Benjamin Britten’s ‘Owen Wingrave’ will strike a chord with more than just music lovers, writes Cathy Desmond

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"A rotted body politic riven with lies and factions and a sense that debauchery, despotism and tyranny governs all," is how director, Michael Barker-Caven describes the background of The Rape of Lucretia.