Jacob Lenz; Berlin Staatskapelle/Barenboim; Salieri Quartet – review

Hampstead theatre; Royal Festival Hall; St Olave Hart Street LondonWater seems very much in vogue in chamber opera these days. It gradually seeped across the broad deck of the Linbury stage at the Royal Opera's Heart of Darkness last year, and now it's unavoidable at English National Opera's daring new production of Jakob Lenz at Hampstead theatre. There's so much of the stuff sloshing around that new star director Sam Brown took his deserved ovation last week in a pair of stout wellies.Brown p...

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