Music / opera

The trial


Reviews (1)


BBC music magazine

2018 May

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Claire Jackson

2018 May

"Glass's microscopic motivic development creates a claustrophobic atmosphere that is ideally suited to Franz Kafka's unsettling dystopia, accurately conveyed by Christopher Hampton's incisive libretto ... Hampton and Glass prise out the gallows humour as Kafka intended ... The versatile cast take multiple roles ... Josef K [is] expertly sung by baritone Johnny Herford".