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Barbed wire and gruel: cold comfort in ENO’s Force of Destiny

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“the church offers no solace, only chains and a barbed wire crown of thorns”
Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 9 November 2015
Verdi, La forza del destino
Mark Wigglesworth, Conductor
Calixto Bieito, Director
Rebecca Ringst, Set Designer
Ingo Krügler, Costume Designer
Tamara Wilson, Leonora
Rinat Shaham, Preziosilla
Gwyn Hughes Jones, Don Alvaro
Anthony Michaels-Moore, Don Carlo
James Creswell, Padre Guardiano
Clare Presland, Curra
Adrian Dwyer, Trabuco
Andrew Shore, Fra Melitone
Nicholas Folwell, Alcade
Robert Winslade Anderson, Marquis of Calatrava
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