L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Cinderella | Classical review

Coliseum, London; Royal Opera House, LondonMark Morris, Handel and Milton make a sublime trioL'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato was choreographed by Mark Morris in 1988, and is perhaps the supreme expression of late 20th-century American modern dance. To music by Handel and poetry by John Milton, and inspired by illustrations by William Blake, Morris has created a detailed and endearingly quixotic hymn to humanism and enlightenment.We open in darkness, from which rises the voice of a tenor (...

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