King Priam, English Touring Opera, ETO, Linbury Studio, ROH, February 2014
Posted on 16 February 2014This opera is all over in two and half hours including an interval, which is extraordinary because the story is HUGE. This is the Trojan War, told from the perspective of Troy. Act I gives us the background, starting with King Priam’s dilemma on whether to let his baby son Paris live, or have him …