Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe healing power of music is made real in Clare van Kampen's irresistibly genial play about the great 18th-century castratoThere is an irresistible geniality at the heart of Claire van Kampen's new play. Farinelli and the King is the story of the great Italian castrato who lifted the deep depression of Philippe V of Spain by singing to him every day. John Dove's production makes the id…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM on March 1, 2015