Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids

A new version of ETO's Fantastic Mr Fox casts 250 children. Roald Dahl would approveWe are surrounded by strange things: guns and goblets, pebble-shaped buns and a goose that has keeled over. Amid the props in a cramped east London rehearsal studio, English Touring Opera director Tim Yealland is briefing a skulk of fox cubs on the finale of Fantastic Mr Fox, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's book with music by the New York composer Tobias Picker. On the surface, it's a simple story of how...

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