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Nico Muhly - Two Boys
Opens: 24/06/2011 Closes: 08/07/2011
Coliseum, London
Cybersex, chatrooms and strange aliases are all explored in esteemed classical composer Nico Muhly's new opera about the dark side of the internet. American playwright Craig Lucas's libretto, inspired by true events, examines the investigation of a stabbing, under the direction of Tony Award-winning Bhartlett Sher. A world premier. Read our interview with Muhly here.
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Financial Times“Deserves a composer with a more distinctive voice...” The music is easy on the ear, the two-hour running-time just about perfect. Give or take a whiff of cyberspace there's nothing to alienate or offend. So why is Two Boys so underwhelming...
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40%
Guardian“Alas, a plodding and amorphous work...” Always more documentary rather than drama, and a bland mid-Atlantic compromise at that...
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70 %
The Stage“The story is well and swiftly told...” An impressive launch. Only Muhly’s score, too much of it registering as a commonplace and ultimately thin soundtrack accompaniment, disappoints...
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80 %
Opera Britannia“A genuinely captivating story...” A thoroughly slick production, astutely conceived and dramatically powerful...
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100%
The Independent“Opera was ever thus. But it's just gone viral...” You can lose yourself in these choruses, just as you can lose yourself - or your identity - in cyberspace...
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60%
The Telegraph“It’s not hard to listen to...” A bit of a bore – dreary and earnest rather than moving and gripping, and smartly derivative rather than distinctively individual...
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