Dr Dee – review

Coliseum, LondonSince it was first seen during the Manchester festival last year, Damon Albarn and Rufus Norris's opera built around the life and work of John Dee – the 16th-century mathematician, alchemist, spy and adviser to Elizabeth I – has been fleshed out and revised. Extra songs have been added (Dr Dee himself has gained a singing voice), orchestrations enhanced and Norris's production generally refined. In its transfer to the Coliseum under English National Opera's auspices, Dr Dee s...

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