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Article: THE CRITICS: PC plod in search of great American opera
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 20, 1995
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BOOKING Claudio Abbado for the opening concert sent a clear
message to this year's Edinburgh Festival audience: glamour is back
- it's official. The roster of artists on the rest of the
programme says much the same thing. Brian McMaster, the festival
director, seems to be in the process of creating a Salzburg of the
north. It's only a matter of time before people start to arrive in
fur coats and helicopters.
But the first music theatre on the 1995 programme has been an
example of inverse glamour: a new piece called I Was Looking at the
Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky with a synopsis that reads like a
Guinness Book of Records entry for the number of socio-ethnic
Issuessqueezed into one ...
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