REVIEW: Beautiful, Bestial, and Bonkers: 'Iris' at Opera Holland Park
The score is lavish and sumptuous, the playing gorgeous, the singing excellent. So what makes "Iris" the most bonkers show ever put on at Opera Holland Park?Mascagni's rarely-staged 1898 opera tells the story of a guileless Japanese child who is abducted and then abandoned by a rich young man. She has a dream about an octopus, and stabs herself from shame. In a strange and symbolic climax, the chorus sings an ecstati…