It seems to me that in LONDON ROAD, Cork and Blythe have stumbled onto a new way for opera to recapture the immediacy it had several centuries ago when it was the venality and cruelty of these tales that drew the audiences in, and the music that kept them hooked. The show is being sold as a play with music, or maybe a musical play. But make no mistake, this is an opera.
SOURCE: Extra Criticum at 08:01PM on January 23, 2014