CLASSICAL
Opera gives a powerful voice to the exiled
very Tuesday, the Ministry of Defence publishes a series of figures to , the government’s online portal. For the most part, these numbers sit quietly on the webpage, sporadically quoted by columnists with copy to file. Their existence is an irrelevance to some – an inconvenience to others – and, by and large, they are viewed in abstraction. For those outside Kent, it, an operetta based on Voltaire’s 1759 novella about a refugee’s chaotic scramble for truth, and Welsh National Opera (WNO) premiered, a new work covering many aspects of relocation – from The Mayflower to the experience of Indian doctors working in the NHS – that is about to tour venues across the UK (October 2-November 26).
