Last unperformed Stockhausen opera lifts off

The strings play in helicopters, the trumpeter's on a trapeze, and a camel dances around while defecating planets. Alexis Petridis on Birmingham Opera Company's bid to stage a mind-boggling Stockhausen operaIt's a Thursday afternoon and, outside the Argyle Works in Digbeth, it is raining very, very hard. Inside, the rain hammers against the former chemical plant's corrugated roof, the sound as inescapable as the strange, slightly acrid smell that still lingers, years after its former occupiers ...

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