LSO/Adès | Classical review

Barbican, LondonThe UK premiere of Gerald Barry's latest opera appeared almost unobtrusively in the middle of the otherwise regulation orchestral programme that Thomas Adès's conducted with the London Symphony Orchestra.La Plus Forte sets a French translation of Strindberg's tiny play The Stranger, in which Madame X finds Mademoiselle Y sitting alone in a cafe on Christmas Eve. Though the younger woman says nothing, Madame X continues her small talk about domestic matters, until it dawns on her...

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