Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho | Classical review

Royal Opera House; Young Vic; The Place, LondonDavid McVicar's chaotic new Aida has its heart, if not all the notes, in the right placeWhen the Royal Opera House warns of "partial nudity", you can assume it's as severe a threat as that given recently on Radio 3's estimable CD Review about the offensive text of Magnus Lindberg's choral work Graffiti, which turned out to contain saucy snippets of ancient Latin comprehensible only to classicists or the long dead.In the dingy gloom of David McVicar'...

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