Evening Standard - London, November 25th, 2002
Babette's Feast Royal Opera House BABETTE'S Feast was an interesting choice for the Royal Opera's latest educational project. Its writer, Isak Dinesen, is perhaps better known as Karen Blixen, also the author of Out of Africa, and like Babette's Feast, made into a film. Babette's Feast is about the impact on a remote Norwegian community, governed by a strict religious sect, of a worldly, liberated refugee from Paris called Babette. Using her skills as a former head chef at the Ritz, Babette prepares a feast that transforms the lives of the community. From this scenario has been fashioned an...
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