In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La bohème/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet | Classical review

Linbury studio; Royal Opera House; Peacock theatre; Kings Place, all LondonA string quintet, two singers, one actor plus a wooden table to suggest an apparatus for torture: you can shape an opera out of anything. These were the sparse elements, tightly brought together, in Philip Glass's one-act In the Penal Colony. Its libretto, by American novelist and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer, derives from Kafka's terrifying short story of the same name. Music Theatre Wales, the indispensable, pint-size...

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