It wasn’t, on the face of it, my idea of a stellar evening out: a workshop production of a chat-show-/opera. But Tom Morris, artistic director of Battersea Arts Centre (and brother of Chris as in Brass Eye), was brimming with enthusiasm for his new show. It seemed churlish to be deterred by the fact that…
If you think opera is dead, go to Battersea and you’ll see just how wrong you are. Over the next two weeks, Battersea Arts Centre’s annual festival of new opera, “The Works”, will be subverting, reinventing, democratising and celebrating this 400 year-old art form through 13 different shows on such subjects as the male suicide…