Menotti’s The Telephone & Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune – Guildhall School of Music & Drama – directed by Martin Lloyds-Evans; conducted by Dominic Wheeler

Just a few days after Barbara Hannigan’s remarkable, devastating presentation of Poulenc’s La voix humaine at the Barbican comes the Guildhall School’s double bill of operas just across Silk Street, the first part of which is Menotti’s The Telephone (1947, essentially an opera buffa). Whereas in Poulenc’s tragédie lyrique the telephone acts as the more or less effective and positive medium through …

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