13 Apr 2006

London's `Il Re Pastore' Has Shepherds, Alexander, Pretensions

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a0f09ZPJ30Jw&refer=culture

mozart_wolfgang_small.jpgBy Warwick Thompson [Bloomberg.com, 13 April 2006]

April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Mozart's early opera ``Il re pastore'' (``The Shepherd King'') isn't performed often. I have a horrible feeling that its popularity won't increase much after John Lloyd Davies's pretentious production in the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House.