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A gloriously inventive night at Tête à Tête: Psyche, On the Axis Of This World and Encounters In The Republic Of Heaven

By Charlotte Valori, 14 August 2014
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Reviewed at Kings Place: Limehouse Room, London on 8 August 2014
Programme
Groves, Psyche
Rogers, On the Axis of This World
Wishart, Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
Performers
Cambridge City Opera Ltd
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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.