Page 437 - Aldeburgh Festival 2022 FINAL COVERAGE BOOK
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5 June 2022
Opera
Violet review – Coult’s debut opera opens
Aldeburgh with assurance
Time gets short … Richard Burkhard, Frances Gregory and Anna Dennis in Violet. Photograph:
Marc Brenner
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
Alice Birch’s elliptical story of a wife finding freedom as society disintegrates is opaque
but Tom Coult’s confident, varied score gives it power
Andrew Clements
