The Pilgrim's Progress, Coliseum, London
Coliseum, London: First performed at Covent Garden in 1951, Vaughan Williams' 'morality' is a full-scale operatic treatment of John Bunyan's Christian allegory, published in 1678 while the author was in jail for preaching without a licence. The text meant a good deal to the composer, who made musical settings of it, large and small, over a period of more than 40 years - culminating in this piece, …