Clemency – review

Linbury Studio, LondonClemency, James MacMillan's new opera for five singers and string orchestra, is about "vengeance and mercy", according to its librettist, Michael Symmons Roberts. A co-production between ROH2 and Scottish Opera, it's a religious work that examines the inscrutable nature of divine justice by recasting part of the book of Genesis in contemporary terms.Abraham offers hospitality to three mysterious, angelic Triplets, who prophesy that his wife Sarah, who is ageing and childl...

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