The Royal Opera - The Wasp Factory Reviews | 19 April 2024 |
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The Wasp FactoryThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 7 |
Highly original and visually arresting, but let down by the vocal music |
6 Oct 13 / The Observer |
Ben Frost's opera based on Iain Banks's novel is baffling and features too much half-stoned droning |
5 Oct 13 / Telegraph |
The huge theatrical potential of Iain Banks’s story is wasted in composer Ben Frost’s adaptation |
4 Oct 13 / Financial Times |
Ben Frost’s austere production is more sound installation than opera |
4 Oct 13 / Evening Standard |
This tense, vividly communicated and claustrophobic production is not for the faint-hearted |
4 Oct 13 / The Stage |
A mind-numbingly pretentious 75 minutes |
4 Oct 13 / Independent |
Yet another 'radical', cross-genre operatic collaboration comes a cropper |
3 Oct 13 / The Arts Desk |
Production details
Cast
De Wilde, Richter, Wallentin
(c) n/a (d) Frost
Performance dates
2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 October 2013
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