Hogarth’s art is both irreverent and deadly serious; moralising, and worldly. It was no surprise to me, therefore, that today’s students at the Royal College of Music can find a rich seam of inspiration in his work, producing five short new operas, each one a modern reaction to a different Hogarth image (or series). But the unexpected delight of this evening was the sheer quality of these five short works, musically, visually and dramatically: each distinctly different, but all full of excellence and imagination.

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Hogarth’s ‘Satire on False Perspective’, 1853