Damon Albarn on Dr Dee: An English Opera

Damon Albarn discusses his new opera about Dr John Dee, the Elizabethan astrologer, courtier, alchemist and spy, ahead of its premiere on Friday night at the Manchester International Festival.

More on Damon Albarn at http://www.guardian.co.uk/music

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[Breakingshadez]

Damon Albarn ftw!

[2DFever]

This is AWESOME!

[YlissaDinoRawr]

damons beard makes him look old n kinda sick n i love damon albarn but the beard must go

[lens2optic]

i like the song at the very start

[TheGayGorilla]

Damon, I friggin love your beard... keep it

[jiffinbigles]

I love just listening to british people speak, wish I could hire one to just speak

[damres]

@jonnykarma7

And you my loooove

Won't you take my haaand

And we'll go back in tiiime

To that mystic laaand

[26652717]

I love him with or without beard!

[MsSelma90]

@StarCatch77 I totally agree! So Damon, if you read this, please shave your beard!

[StarCatch77]

I loooove Damon Albarn but he needs to shave the beard. He's sexier without it! Dr. Dee sounds amazing!

[jonnykarma7]

In ancient times... Hundreds of years before the dawn of history Lived a strange race of people... the Druids No one knows who they were or what they were doing But their legacy remains Hewn into the living rock... Of Stonehenge Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell Where the banshees live and they do live well Stonehenge! Where a man's a man And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan Hey!