16 Feb 2009

Blacked-out opera debuts in bar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7892508.stm

[BBC News, 16 February 2009]

The cast of a new opera was forced into an impromptu debut in the bar of the Royal Opera House after a power cut.

The lights went out 10 minutes into the press night of composer George Benjamin’s updated Pied Piper story, Into the Little Hill, on Saturday.