pic: bill cooper'Through his 40-year career as an opera composer Harrison Birtwistle has repeatedly looked at human emotions and frailties through characters who are not quite human. In his new opera for Covent Garden, he finally makes the issue the centre of his drama; and in the Minotaur himself, a role specially conceived for the bass John Tomlinson, he has created one of his most complex and fascinating protagonists.'
Andrew Clements in guardian
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