When Mozart was commissioned to write an opera for the coronation of Emperor Leopold II, he produced La clemenza di Tito: a hymn to the benevolence of a Roman despot. When Matt Rogers and Sally O’Reilly were commissioned by the Inner Temple, they came up with an opera in which the protagonist is a law student who tries to obstruct the emergency services.
Richard Bratby
Brief encounters
Matt Rogers’ And London Burned was music to the ears of the lawyers who’d commissioned the work, while John Joubert’s Jane Eyre was a vital, warm-blooded adaptation of the novel
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