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Broad slapstick eclipses Haydn’s Life on the Moon

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Reviewed at Hackney Empire, London on 17 October 2014
Haydn, Il mondo della luna
Christopher Bucknall, Conductor
Cal McCrystal, Director
takis, Set Designer
Jane Harrington, Clarice
Martha Jones, Lisetta
Ronan Busfield, Cecco
Christopher Turner, Ecclitico
Andrew Slater, Buonafede
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