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Opera della Luna is a little miracle: Curtain Raisers at Wilton’s Music Hall reviewed

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

Curtain Raisers

Wilton’s Music Hall

BBC Concert Orchestra/ Bramwell Tovey

Royal Albert Hall

Arthur Sullivan knew better than to mess with a winning formula. ‘Cox and Box, based on J. Maddison Morton’s farce Box and Cox’ reads the title page of his first comic opera, composed to a libretto by F.C. Burnand a good five years before he latched up with W.S. Gilbert.

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