Sex, havoc, obsession - it must be Ian McEwan

For You, Linbury Studio, London WC2, today, then touringMatilde di Shabran, Royal Opera House, London WC2, tomorrow until 11 NovA quarter of a century since they collaborated on a pacifist oratorio, Or Shall We Die?, composer Michael Berkeley and novelist Ian McEwan have teamed up again for an opera, premiered in Covent Garden's Linbury Studio after plans to unveil it in Wales, during this summer's Hay-on-Wye festival, went awry. Berkeley's wife being McEwan's agent, the two are old friends, so ...

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