Peter Grimes
English National Opera
L’elisir d’amore
Royal Opera House
Norma
English Touring Opera, in Cambridge
ENO’s advertisement for its new production of Peter Grimes under David Alden, and the front of the programme, is of a surly, even aggressive youth with ropes coiled behind him.
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