Best of 2020: Opera
by David NiceSunday, 27 December 2020
Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall.
Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall. It seems like a decade ago when audiences of all ages were packed tight to crack up - or not get it - at Covent Garden for the UK stage premiere of Gerald Barry s
Alice s Adventures Under Ground in a tirelessly resourceful production by director/designer Antony McDonald. Another brief flourish to a much smaller Royal Opera House audience in October reached many more spectators online with the realisation of the house s new Director of Opera Oliver Mears idea for staging song cycles/cantatas in the dazzling