Review: Flight (State Opera South Australia)
A fine operatic metaphor for the transience and troubles of modern life, but Flight's rhyming libretto reduces uplift.
A fine operatic metaphor for the transience and troubles of modern life, but Flight's rhyming libretto reduces uplift.
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