King Priam – review

Dome, BrightonFirst performed in Coventry to mark the consecration of the city's new cathedral in 1962, King Priam is, for many, Michael Tippett's greatest opera. Drawing on The Iliad, it's a rich, complex piece, in some respects a thing of paradoxes, but also typical of its composer in its often relentless philosophical and psychological probing.Tippett was a committed pacifist, and the opera meditates bitterly on the trauma of war, both national and personal. Yet the work is also a disquisitio...

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