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23 June 2024
Curlew River review — Ian Bostridge
is astonishing in Britten’s parable
Our critic emerged into the twilight feeling at once shocked, purged and uplifted by
the tenor’s stunning performance at Blythburgh Church in Suffolk
Richard Morrison
Sunday June 23 2024, 5.00pm, The Times
Ian Bostridge, remarkable as the Madwoman in Curlew River, part of this year’s Aldeburgh Festival
BRITTEN PEARS ARTS
★★★★★
Sixty years after its premiere, also at the Aldeburgh Festival, Britten’s church parable Curlew
River has had a production of such blazing intensity that I emerged into the midsummer twilight
feeling shocked, purged and uplifted all at once. And if Ian Bostridge has given a better stage
performance than this, as the distraught Madwoman searching for her abducted son, I haven’t
seen it.
