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Monday, January 8, 2018

Worst ever opera premiere?

The first was John Buller's The Bacchae, staged at English National Opera in 1992 in what the booklet maintained was the original GREEK. My companion, a classical scholar, said it was more like restaurant GREEK. The music was static and mostly impenetrable. Nothing happened for 90 minutes.


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