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27 February 2020
The Angel Esmeralda @
Silk Street Theatre, London
24, 26, 28 February, 2 March 2020
by Sam Smith
published: 27 Feb 2020 in Reviews
Elsa Roux Chamoux
(Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic)
The Angel Esmeralda is a new opera, adapted from Don DeLillo’s
eponymous short story by former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist
Composer in Residence Lliam Paterson, and librettist Pamela Carter. It is
currently enjoying its world premiere by the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama, having been commissioned by Scottish Opera. It is a bold work
that, far from seeing such operatic clichés as middle-aged men trying to
