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Work: Coraline

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ComposerTurnage, Mark-Anthony (b. 1960)
PeriodContemporary
Year2018
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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Entertaining but not entrancing: Turnage's Coraline

Mark-Anthony Turnage's take on Neil Gaiman's classic young adult novella is well sung and well staged, without quite reaching peak intensity.
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Sian Edwards on conducting Turnage's Coraline

Sian Edwards © Katie Vandyck
Mark Anthony Turnage's Coraline has just received its world première. We catch up with its conductor, Sian Edwards, to discuss the score and wider contemporary opera.