Operas about wags? Why not, says the Royal Opera House

Football, pregnancy tests and Aladdin feature in three wildly experimental new Royal Opera House works. Meet the genre-busting composersI'm not a great fan of opera," says Orlando Gough, by way of an opening gambit, "which makes me a slightly strange person to be writing one." But when the call came from the Royal Opera House, the offer was too good to turn down. Gough is one of three composers taking a first shot at opera on the comparatively large stage of the Linbury theatre. Alongside him ar...

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