REVIEWS : Opera Crystal Balls / Stephen Edwards Lilian Baylis Theatre, London

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: November 8, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

As Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee no doubt had a sneak preview of his own life story as told in Crystal Balls. Even so, it's unlikely he got all the jokes. "It's as good as cooking haddock/ With a singing Fanny Craddock," the Doctor intones in Act I, brewing up base metals into gold with his fellow magus Edward Kelly.

Similar couplets abound in Compact Opera's new slice-of-Elizabethan-life production, but rarely just for fun. Out of the spicy jingles of Justin Fleming's libretto, real characters emerge in the crucible of verbal invention. There's also a story with a sharp twist and ...

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