Dance: A perfect deal with the Devil

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: June 20, 2004| Author: Jenny Gilbert | Copyright information

The Soldier's Tale

Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House

LONDON

While Gounod's Faust rumbled away upstairs at Covent Garden last week, downstairs in the Linbury Studio a much snappier contract was being drawn up with the Devil. Stravinsky's masterpiece-in-miniature The Soldier's Tale was written to be performed off the back of a lorry, post-war Europe being short on funds as well as musical personnel in 1918. To its huge credit Will Tuckett's taut new staging, while expandi...

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