Verdi: Aida ****
English National Opera, 28th September 2017
Instead of posters for English National Opera’s new staging of Aida depicting a steep shaft of light over a lone soprano, they could easily have screamed Akhnaten II: Return of the Tomb Raider. Phelim McDermott envisages it as a sister production to his team’s mesmeric award-winning production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten of two seasons ago. But would the hypnotic juggling and glacial choreography work for Giuseppe Verdi’s Nile epic?
Latonia Moore (Aida)
© Tristram Kenton
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