Article: The drowned world

The drowned world

Ian Irvine

Elaborate stagecraft is superfluous in a piece as spare and grim as a Norse epic

Riders to the Sea

Coliseum, London WC2

Vaughan Williams's Riders to the Sea is a work fraught with mortality, but the sudden and untimely death of the conductor Richard Hickox, just days before the opening of this new production at the Coliseum, gave the first night an added poignancy. Edward Gardner, English National Opera's music director, stood in for him, and all the performances were dedicated to his memory. Hickox had been a noted champion of English composers and had played a leading part in the commemoration this year of the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams's death, of ...

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