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A fundraising appeal is being launched for a long-forgotten Catholic opera created in 1920s Paris.

The Lost Sheep, by Catholic playwright Francis Jammes and composer Darius Milhaud, is expected to receive its UK premiere in London in December.

The love story depicts a couple living out family life in Bearn, France. The wife runs away with her true love, to Burgos, only to embark on a journey of redemption and return to her husband.

A company, Another Opera, is hoping to put on the production in December in the Crypt of St Pancras Parish church, London.

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