The Dancing Master, Buxton Festival, July 2021
Posted on 14 July 2021Matthew Arnold was a highly talented composer let down by his mental health and a predilection for drink. This opera followed a previously abandoned collaboration on a great opera to rival both Boris Godunov and Otello, with the same librettist, but this time they went to the opposite extreme, turning a Restoration comedy into a one-act opera. See my review in The Article.