Neither the early life of Priam, the elderly king of Troy, nor his miserable and bloody fate are direct concerns of the “Iliad.” The Homeric epic opens in medias res, already in the 10th year of the ...

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What would I do? Keep the chorus - and ETO's is superb - in the wings when the original stage directions say so, strike Anna Fleischle’s ungainly set, bring the instrumentalists down to share a third ...

Shameless star David Threlfall will once again play the father figure as he takes on the role of King Priam in an epic new drama re-telling the legend of Troy. He will join a cast including the likes ...

Audiences are set to enjoy Olivier Award-winning performances if they head to Exeter Northcott Theatre next month. English Touring Opera (ETO) was recognised for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for ...

Michael Tippett’s opera King Priam, first performed to mark the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral in 1962 following its bombing by the Germans in the Second World War, is a powerful pacifist ...

King Priam Many new operas don’t get preserved for posterity, so this 24-year-old BBC TV recording of King Priam, a two-hour effort by the late English composer Michael Tippett, is something to be ...

We arrive with expectations high as this is the festival finale performance. However, this is not a full opera, but a sung performance; with the Britten Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus taking ...