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★★★☆☆The “quest journey”, in which a protagonist embarks on a hunt for something that leads to encounters with numerous symbolic characters, is one of the most ubiquitous story-forms in mythology. A couple of those legends have been raided by the playwright Martin Crimp as the basis for the new opera he has written with the composer George Benjamin – given its UK premiere by the Royal Opera in this fluid, enigmatic staging by Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma.
The quest here is for that most elusive of holy grails: the restoration of happiness after tragedy. A mother (Ema Nikolovska, aptly numb) has watched her infant die. Consolation seems impossible but she is told her child will be miraculously brought back to life if she
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