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…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 02:48AM on June 13, 2016