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Review: Opera: Magnificent score but this Pilgrim doesn't progress: The Pilgrim's Progress Coliseum, London 3/5
2012
Overview
It has become an article of faith for the English-music lobby that The Pilgrim's Progress had to be seen again as [Vaughan Williams] intended; though he carefully called it a \"morality\" and not an opera, he always insisted it belonged in the theatre. But [Yoshi Oida]'s staging raises more questions than it answers about the work's dramatic viability. The story of the Pilgrim's journey to the Celestial City is presented as a series of tableaux in which none of the characters emerges identifiably in three dimensions; even the Pilgrim is more significant for what he represents than for who he is. A two-and-a-half-hour opera whose action is symbolic and whose purpose is loftily didactic, in which the dramatic pulse beats rather slowly and sometimes vanishes altogether, can be tough going at times.
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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