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Oct 28, 2021
3 minutes
Robert Thicknesse on Opera
● WHO SAID CLASSICAL MUSIC IS dead? Well, catch yerself on, because Serj Tankian, lead singer of Armenian-American metalheads System of a Down, is coming to park his love guns on your lawn. The guy who brought you Genocidal Humanoidz (Azerbaijanis? I didn’t check) has used lockdown to produce a “classical piano concerto”, so he has. Serj, 54, with a rueful grin, recognised the outré nature of his achievement: “I mean, who the fuck listens to 24 minutes of music as one piece today?”
Who the) has staggered over the fence, I’m sure the English National Opera will be jetting him over for the 230 minutes (relax! – it’s in three bits!) of , opening later in November.
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