The Sound of a Voice – review

Arcola Tent, LondonGrimeborn, the self-styled "hippest opera festival in London", had a major coup two summers ago with the UK premiere of Philip Glass's "dance opera" Les Enfants Terribles. For this year's festival it has conjured up another Glass stage work never seen here before: The Sound of a Voice, first performed in 2003.Based upon a pair of short stories by David Henry Hwang, who also wrote the text, The Sound of a Voice is an operatic diptych – a pair of self-contained two-handers tha...

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