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Simon Steen-Andersen's opera Buenos Aires proves a thought provoking and bizarre piece

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“Throughout the opera, Steen-Andersen devised different ways of distorting speech”
Reviewed at Oslo Opera House, Stage 2, Oslo on 18 September 2014
Steen-Andersen, Buenos Aires
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
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