I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni | Classical review

Theatre Royal Stratford East, London; Royal Festival Hall, London; Glyndebourne Opera House, East SussexYou don't need to be a theoretical physicist to go to the opera but it helps. Black holes, big bangs, general relativity and gravitational collapse, not to mention two solo flights to the abyss, one in virtual space at the Southbank and one in moral space at Glyndebourne, took on musical form this week, with varying success.There's nothing new about composers trying to represent the cosmos: th...

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