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Edinburgh: Lyell Cresswell's ‘Good angel, bad Angel’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2005

David Johnson
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Good angel, bad angel is a new 1-act opera, premièred in Edinburgh on 20 May and toured to Glasgow, Peebles and Inverness on 21, 23 and 25 May; it received four performances in all. It lasts almost exactly an hour, and is scored for the slenderest forces imaginable – three singers covering six roles, and an orchestra of four players (bass clarinet doubling B flat clarinet, violin, viola, cello). The story is nasty, centring on the pointless murder of a miserly old shopkeeper on Christmas Day; it slightly reminds one of A Christmas Carol, except that it completely lacks Dickens's optimism and hope. The opera supposedly ends with the central character's redemption, but this is ambiguous and pretty hard to follow.

Type
FIRST PERFORMANCES
Information
Tempo , Volume 59 , Issue 234 , October 2005 , pp. 40 - 41
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© Cambridge University Press 2005

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