Xerxes, Britten Theatre, London

(The Stage :: Reviews) - 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Britten Theatre, London: Handel's opera was an enormous success for English National Opera back in 1985 in a production by Nicholas Hytner that returned again and again, partly because it successfully negotiated the feat of transferring Handel's ironic comedy from its setting in the ancient world to a new context. The problem with James Conway's new English Touring Opera production, designed by Sarah Bacon, is that its period transfer doesn't work.

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