Classical Punk: In the 1980s, Elvis Costello became interested in classical music. He had written a ballet score and worked with the Brodsky Quartet and Anne Sofie von Otter when he was approached by the Danes to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen. The result was the "The Secret Arias," an opera based on Andersen's unrequited yearning for Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. It debuted in Copenhagen in 2005.

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