Igor Toronyi-Lalic

All at sea | 19 November 2015

Ignore this Royal Opera House world premiere. Save your money. And invest it instead in a lively new work, Biedermann and the Arsonists, at the Lilian Baylis Studio

  • Morgen und Abend

    Royal Opera House, in rep until 28November

  • Biedermann and the Arsonists

    Lilian Baylis Studio

The Royal Opera House seemed nervous about Georg Friedrich Haas’s world première Morgen und Abend. They sent out a pdf of the libretto in advance, which they only ever do when they think that the words or the plot are unintelligible. Thrilled to report that it was a double whammy.

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