Pleasure review – Lesley Garrett shines as the lady of the loo

Howard Assembly Room, LeedsMark Simpson’s inventive new opera finds heartwarming emotion in the parade of colourful characters passing through the toilets of a gay clubLesley Garrett’s career has taken a curious trajectory, from ENO principal and prime-time television diva to scrubbing the toilets of a gay nightclub. At least, that’s the undignified situation in which she finds herself in Mark Simpson’s new opera, performed by Psappha and jointly commissioned by Opera...

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