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Julian Anderson Thebans, English National Opera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2014

Stephen Graham
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In basing his first opera on Sophocles' Thebans trilogy, heard at the ENO on 3 May 2014 in a condensed three-act version, one act per play, Julian Anderson shows his colours as something of a classicist. No postmodern pastiche nor quasi-medieval dramatic innovations for him, as we've seen from near British contemporaries Mark-Anthony Turnage and George Benjamin, nor the technological and dramaturgical explorations of other recent ENO productions, from Two Boys to Satyagraha to A Dog's Heart. No, this is a composer with his feet firmly planted in the grand operatic tradition of classical subjects and traditional telling.

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FIRST PERFORMANCES
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Tempo , Volume 68 , Issue 270 , October 2014 , pp. 77 - 78
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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