Hugo Shirley

ENO’s The Girl of the Golden West is irresistibly seductive

Plus: ignore Rossini's primary-school simplification of Exodus, Pountney's Mose in Egitto for WNO is astonishing

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  • The Girl of the Golden West

    English National Opera, in rep until1 November

  • Mosè in Egitto

    Welsh National Opera, on tour until 28 November

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