Soul Man – review

Stephen Joseph, ScarboroughThere are certain combinations that should never go together: chalk and cheese, oil and water, Verdi and classic American soul – though that doesn't dissuade Chris Monks from having a try. No opera is safe from Monks's satiric reinventions. He has transformed Don Giovanni into a Victorian conjurer, Figaro into a personal fitness trainer and Carmen into a checkout girl in love with a Premiership footballer. Now he gives us Rigoletto reimagined as an off-colour standup...

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