Richard Bratby

Are we going to have to start taking Calixto Bieito seriously? ENO’s Carmen reviewed

Plus: Gerald Barry shreds Lewis Carroll's prose into verbal kedgeree in Alice's Adventures Under Ground at the Royal Opera House

issue 15 February 2020
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  • Carmen

    Coliseum, in rep until 27 February

  • Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

    Royal Opera House

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