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Article: The Critics: Classical - I'm in love with a man in a nappy - and other great arias Jerry Springer the Opera/Kombat Opera Battersea Arts Centre LONDON May We Borrow Your Husband/Grantworks Battersea Arts Centre LONDON
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2001
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If you think opera is dead, go to Battersea and you'll see just
how wrong you are. Over the next two weeks, Battersea Arts Centre's
annual festival of new opera, "The Works", will be subverting,
reinventing, democratising and celebrating this 400 year-old art form
through 13 different shows on such subjects as the male suicide
epidemic, the oppression of the Zapatista, the agony of bereavement,
caring for the terminally ill, and religious intolerance. Oh, and
cross-dressing - that fine old staple of grand opera.
The first story heard at this year's festival (which opened last
Tuesday) was that of Kylie, the chick-with-a-dick, who wanted to
"share her guilty secret" in Kombat Opera's Jerry ...