We reported singer and songwriter Rufus Wainwright, in discussing his new opera, Hadrian, referring to a revolt by Jews against Roman rule in Judea in AD 66-73. We meant the revolt of AD 132-136, during Hadrian’s rule (“Opera leaves me transfigured...”, Focus, last week, page 40).
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