Onwards, opera virgins | John Berry

When music and theatre gel, as Terry Gilliam did with ENO, the result can be unmissable artWhen a critic describes a production as getting "a riotous reception", as one recently wrote of ENO's reinterpretation of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, it's not necessarily complimentary. In our case, he was referring to the fact that boos sounded among the cheers from the opening night audience.This kind of reaction is more common on the continent than it is in the UK. Opera houses in Muni...

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