The Siege of Calais, English Touring Opera, ETO, Hackney Empire, March 2015
Posted on 8 March 2015Donizetti had once hoped to make his entry to Paris with this opera, but it was not to be. The weakness was Act III, wisely cut by James Conway in this production, leaving us with the departure of six burghers from Calais being sent to their deaths on the command of England’s king Edward III, …