Diamanda Galás – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonSomewhere out there is a parallel universe in which Diamanda Galás has a perfectly conventional, dazzling career as a mezzo-soprano. And another in which she is a reasonably straightforward blues-rock star: Tina Turner and Patti Smith rolled into one. And, no doubt, another in which she is entirely unknown: too singular, too demanding for any record label or music venue to risk putting her before an audience.The imperious woman shrouded in Stygian gloom at the Royal F...

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