Julietta – opera review

Coliseum, LondonWhat is generally regarded as Martinů's finest opera had to wait 40 years for its British premiere, until the New Opera Company staged it at the Coliseum in 1978. There was another production at Opera North in 1997, and now Julietta has returned to the Coliseum; Richard Jones's staging for English National Opera was first seen in Paris 10 years ago, but has come up as crisp as if it were newly minted.The world that Martinů explores in Julietta, in which the boundaries between ...

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