Each mound in turn triggers a memory – the dead Minotaur (slaughtered by her husband Theseus), her wedding shoes, and a dead youth, her stepson Hippolytus, slain to save her reputation as Theseus’ ...
Tonight’s short double bill, Britten’s twenty-minute Phaedra cantata written in 1975 and performed the following year by Janet Baker at the Aldeburgh festival paired with Kim Brandstrup’s ...