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De Niese’s West End defection

LOSING your wife to another man — especially one many years your senior — can never be an agreeable experience, even if it’s only a temporary defection, such as the one being endured by Gus Christie, husband of soprano Danielle De Niese.

It was back in February that I revealed that De Niese, 44, had pulled out of a production of Poulenc’s Dialogue des Carmelites, being staged this summer at Glyndebourne, the Sussex opera house founded by the Christie family in 1934, where Gus is executive chairman.

A Glyndebourne spokesman talked only of ‘a conflicting engagement’, without offering details. But this week saw De Niese (right) take a starring role in a new West End production of Aspects of Love, the hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, 75.

It won’t happen again. Or so Gus, 59, insists. ‘Danni will be back at Glyndebourne next year for the season,’ he assures me at the opening night at London’s Lyric Theatre. ‘She’s doing this musical because she’s keen to explore the various opportunities that come her way. You’ve got to take them while they’re there.’ Stoically said.

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