The Rake’s Progress review – a young cast packed with promise do Stravinsky’s dance with the devil proud
Battersea Arts Centre, London The staging is awkward and balance is an issue at points, but the singers of British Youth Opera are consistently impressive Clapham – home to hundreds of young Londoners crammed into sticky-floored house-shares of a weeknight and the sweaty dancefloors of Infernos at the weekend. Where better to stage The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky and WH Auden’s 1951 fairytale-cum-morality-play about
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Battersea Arts Centre, London The staging is awkward and balance is an issue at points, but the singers of British Youth Opera are consistently impressive Clapham – home to hundreds of young Londoners crammed into sticky-floored house-shares of a weeknight and the sweaty dancefloors of Infernos at the weekend. Where better to stage The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky and WH Auden’s 1951 fairytale-cum-morality-play about
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The Rake’s Progress review – a young cast packed with promise do Stravinsky’s dance with the devil proud
Battersea Arts Centre, London The staging is awkward and balance is an issue at points, but the singers of British Youth Opera are consistently impressive Clapham – home to hundreds of young Londoners crammed into sticky-floored house-shares of a weeknight and the sweaty dancefloors of Infernos at the weekend. Where better to stage The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky and WH Auden’s 1951 fairytale-cum-morality-play about
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