23 Apr 2007

Stiffelio, Royal Opera House, London

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e33bd478-f1b0-11db-b5b6-000b5df10621.html

By Andrew Clark [Financial Times, 23 April 2007]

Sex, sects, adultery and divorce: 21st- century soap opera? No, 19th-century grand opera. We like to think we’re liberated in the way we confront the great moral and social taboos, but Verdi was there before us.