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24 June 2024
Curlew River review
“First-rate cast”
REVIEWSJUN 24, 2024BY EDWARD BHESANIABLYTHBURGH CHURCH, SUFFOL K
The cast of Curlew River at Blythburgh Church, Suffolk. Picture: Marcus Roth
Deeply moving staging of a visionary musical ritual, drawing
together traditions of East and West
Suffolk is steeped in the spirit of Benjamin Britten, who lived there
practically his entire life. Not only did the county feature in his works –
most famously in the opera Peter Grimes, set in a coastal fishing town – he
also instituted the English Opera Group, then in 1948, the Aldeburgh
