It seems the storm has passed and Opera North will stage Hall's community opera after all. But how did things come to this pretty pass?Common sense seems to have prevailed: Lee Hall and Harvey Brough's community opera Beached will be staged, after all, next week in Bridlington, with the support of Opera North and the primary school whose seemingly homophobic objections to a single stanza of Hall's libretto have right…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PM on July 7, 2011