After years of war forced it into near silence, Damascus' once-thriving Opera House is slowly coming back to life, bringing respite and a little culture to residents of Syria's capital. Recent weeks have seen a sharp increase in the number of performances at the Opera House, as residents look to revive some of the capital's cultural life despite a civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people. For Darin, a young woman from a Damascus suburb hit by heavy fighting, the performances have been a welcome break. "When the concert begins, when the first note of the piece is played, I'm taken to another world where I can forget about the noise of war," she told AFP as she wandered the halls of the Opera House in central Damascus.
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