Knussen double bill – review

AldeburghA celebration of Oliver Knussen's 60th birthday is the first thematic strand in this summer's Aldeburgh festival. Knussen, a former artistic director of the festival, features as both conductor and composer, and the programme opened with a new staging by director and video artist Netia Jones of his operatic double bill based upon Maurice Sendak's children's classics, Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop!.Few operas can be more tightly bound up with the visual images of th...

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