Survivor’s guilt: Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Guildhall School
The Rape of Lucretia finds Britten trying to come to terms with World War Two, and his own absence from the action as a conscientious objector, by evoking ideas of…
Save room for seconds: I pazzi per progetto & The Dancing Master
In this double bill, we get a violently enthusiastic little farce from Donizetti which, though fiery, is definitely not his best work; but next, we are treated to the revival…