REVIEWS
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“Lisa Logan’s score is a remarkable musical tour de force, intricate, mesmerising and absorbing...Brontë, the Opera is a work of art emerging from its confines, ready for wider vistas.”
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“Powerful, searing melodies combined with hard hitting choruses fill Lisa Logan’s and David Peimer’s new chamber opera...Logan’s music reaches intense heights and draws you in.”
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“We have a brilliant new opera for the twentieth first century, with iconic strong female characters: Diana and our Queen. A fantastic evening… rejecting the traditional retrospective analysis around Diana, Logan’s new opera, fluidly staged by Janette Smith, went for something far more immersive. Its themes really add to the conversations that we’re still having about Diana 25 years later. One audience member said ‘I’m enjoying the tunes, really powerful beautiful music, I almost cried in Diana and Dodi’s last scene before the crashing waves hinted at their demise in the music.’ .”
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“The opera picks up several weeks before her death and is told from the perspective of two entirely fictitious characters, a pair of bumbling small-time crooks who decide to target a touring exhibition of Diana's jewellery and other memorabilia..”
