The Independent - London, January 16th, 1999
The latest work by Paul Barker, Stone Angels, must be unique - a new opera, with an all-girl cast, which is not ostensibly a "children's opera". The piece receives its world premiere at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London this week on Wednesday and Thursday from Lontano and the New London Children's Choir under the direction of Odaline de la Martinez (above).
To a libretto by its director, Chris Baldwin, the premise of Stone Angels bears more than a passing similarity to a celebrated 20th- century English novel - though in the book it is boys, not girls, who are involved. Here, a group of schoolgi...
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