Skin Deep
Opera North
Verdi’s Requiem
Barbican
It takes a brave person, or more likely couple, to attempt an operetta which effectively satirises contemporary fads, and the more obvious the target the more difficult to pull off the satire with the requisite degree of scathingness.
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