Classical: A long day's journey into night It's taken three years for David Sawer to compose his new opera. The danger, he tells Nick Kimberley, is falling in love with your own music

The Independent - London | April 20, 2001| | Copyright

Was there ever a time when putting on a new opera was free of anxiety? Certainly not in the last 100 years. These days, the pressures on a composer writing for the opera house are immense. Much is made of the necessary "right to fail", but too many composers have exercised that right. For most new operas, the period between the ecstasy of the first night and the agony of oblivion is depressingly short.

Yet successes do happen. At English National Opera last year, Mark- Anthony Turnage's The Silver Tassie not only got rave reviews, it was also a box- office hit; the start of the last ...

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