La Forza del Destino, Royal Opera, September 2023

A man’s father is killed by an accidental gunshot. He holds his sister and her foreign lover responsible, and vows revenge. Despite the lovers parting, and taking sanctuary in religious devotion, they cannot escape the son’s undying fury, which in a scene of poetic justice reunites them at the end. The opera is based on a Spanish play, and is driven by the Spanish idea of fatalism. See my review in The Article.

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