Piccard in Space; Intermezzo; Fidelio – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Royal Opera House, LondonRelativity: the opera? It's been done. Philip Glass put Einstein on a beach, and a German opera, C – the speed of light (2005), swirled us around multimedia universes to mark his anniversary year. But there's always another angle, especially when you cast the physicist not as the mad boffin of later years but as a hip-swivelling, woman-ogling celebrity scientist, as he became (a celebrity, that is; I can't verify th...

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