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<\/a>The British Arts Council has provided funding (in part) for the second performance in 75 years of Still’s TROUBLED ISLAND, the opera that honors the slaves who triumphed in the Haitian slave revolution. This is an opera that is a “must- see” for an understanding of events dealing with bigotry in both the U.K. and the U.S. of A.<\/p>\n