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Just Look Back in Anger: Tippett’s King Priam, by English Touring Opera

By Charlotte Valori, 17 February 2014
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“It leaves us feeling profoundly unsettled. Not a night for the faint hearted.”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre, London on 13 February 2014
Programme
Tippett, King Priam
Performers
English Touring Opera
Michael Rosewell, Conductor
James Conway, Director
Anna Fleischle, Set Designer
Camilla Roberts, Andromache
Laure Meloy, Hecuba
Grant Doyle, Hector
Roderick Earle, Priam
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Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.