Artiste: Claron McFadden

Inspired by Annie Ernaux’s The Years, Philip Venables’ new opera widens the canvas to take in the whole of Europe’s postwar generation. 

McFaddens ergreifend schöne Melodieführung und Melnikovs schimmernde Klavierfarben machten den Konzertabend zu einem unvergesslichen Hörerlebnis.

Though ambitious and occasionally arresting, this revised and expanded take on the Purcell classic suffers from subtraction by addition.