Barbican Britten: Phaedra | Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: MilongaBarbican Britten: Phaedra, LondonRichard Alston has close creative affinities with Benjamin Britten, whose music has inspired two of his finest works: the tenderly elegiac Lachrymae and Illuminations, an exploration of the relationship between the precocious poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine. Both will be revived for the programme that Alston is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM on November 2, 2013