Layla and Majnun review " to hell and Baku with Mark Morris
Sadler's Wells, LondonMorris's dancers are consigned to margins as the Silkroad Ensemble and two of Azerbaijan's greatest singers conjure lovelorn drama centre stageLayla and Majnun, a 12th-century Persian narrative poem based on the story of a poet and the girl he loves and loses, was described by Lord Byron as "the Romeo and Juliet of the east". In 1908, an opera telling the story of Layla and Majnun had its premie…
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