Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Beauty and the beast

Pity the rest of 'This is Rattle' was so irritating and underwhelming. Plus: the UK premiere of a blistering new opera made up of hardcore punk at Cafe OTO

issue 30 September 2017

I was going to start with a little moan. About the shouty marketing, the digital diarrhoea, the sycophantic drivel, which, like a bad smell, hovered over Simon Rattle’s ten-day coronation. But then came the most amazing Rite of Spring I’ve ever heard and to moan suddenly seemed criminal.

No masterpiece is harder to pull off than the Rite.

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