Two Boys - review

Coliseum, LondonNico Muhly's first opera may have its origins in a true story from Manchester in 2003, but, as presented in Craig Lucas's libretto, Two Boys seems far removed from any kind of hard-edged reality.Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, but being trialled by English National Opera, the opera unfolds the whole rather pathetic tale in flashback, through the eyes and ears of Anne Strawson, the whisky-drinking detective investigating the case of Brian, aged 16, accused of s...

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