‘It is good for everyone to return to the old truths, even if they appear to be not exactly modern and topical, and even if they are not the truth, but merely a faith in something good and sound.’
So wrote the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů. He was working on his operatic adaptation of the legendary Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's epic novel Christ Recrucified, published in English in 1954.
– as the opera came to be named – would
