Phaedra | Opera review

Barbican, LondonA "concert opera" is how Hans Werner Henze styles his ­latest stage work, brought to London as the first of the Barbican's Present Voices series. This ­British premiere was a semi-staging, with a first-rate cast led by Maria Riccarda Wesseling as Phaedra, John Mark Ainsley as Hippolytus and Marlis Petersen as Aphrodite, with the peerless Ensemble Modern conducted by Michael Boder. But how much more theatrical content the work would reveal if it were fully staged is hard to ...

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