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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Dickson

‘If you’ve handled an opera director, you can handle a five-year-old’: creatives who changed jobs during the pandemic

Vivienne Clavering, former Royal Opera production manager who is now teaching at a south London primary school.
Vivienne Clavering, former Royal Opera production manager who is now teaching at a south London primary school. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

A stone’s throw from London’s West End, the Groucho Club is exactly the sort of spot you’d expect to find a theatre producer holding court, surrounded by rumpled media types and within earshot of a Netflix exec or three.

But there is a more practical reason why Libby Zietsman-Brodie has suggested this location for our chat today: in a few hours, she has a wine tasting there. When I locate her in the upstairs bar, she is proffering a carafe of pale rosé. “A little something?” she asks, waggling a glass.

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