King Arthur – review

Shoreditch Church, LondonThis performance of Purcell's King Arthur opened with its conductor, Robert Hollingworth, requesting that the audience talk through the overture. In the 17th century, people didn't shut up until someone appeared on stage, so we all nattered away until the evening's narrator, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, swept on to the platform and kicked off what proved to be an engagingly quirky take on Purcell's odd near-masterpiece, performed by Spitalfields Music.King Arthur is a play with...

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