Musical artistry meets ambition in this excellent staging of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera. OperaUpClose embraces the intimate confines of the King’s Head Theatre. Orchestral voices crescendo and merge within the cloistered stage area to terrific, occasionally claustrophobic effect – audience experience is heightened by these unavoidable projections of conflict and fear. Signe Beckmann’s st…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:22AM on July 12, 2011