Richard Bratby

Speech impediment | 19 May 2016

But why use Important Poets as opera librettists? The results, such as in Mark Simpson's Pleasure at Opera North, are usually terrible. That said, Iain Bell's In Parenthesis for WNO somehow works

issue 21 May 2016

  • Pleasure

    Opera North

  • In Parenthesis

    Welsh National Opera, touring until 1 July

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