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Birtwistle's Minotaur at Covent Garden: Impressive but sterile

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Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 17 January 2013
Birtwistle, The Minotaur
The Royal Opera
Ryan Wigglesworth, Conductor
Stephen Langridge, Director
Christine Rice, Ariadne
Johan Reuter, Theseus
Sir John Tomlinson, The Minotaur
Andrew Watts, Snake Priestess
Elisabeth Meister, Ker
Alan Oke, Hiereus
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