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Opera

‘Bewitching’: Krol Roger at the Royal Opera reviewed

Kasper Holten’s psychoanalytic focus is a bit too exclusive but the cast and orchestra are magnificent

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

Krol Roger

Royal Opera House, in rep until 19 May

‘What gives your lies such power?’ asks the bewildered Sicilian leader in Szymanowski’s opera Krol Roger. The question is addressed to a charismatic shepherd, on trial for propagating a lascivious new religion of unbridled sensuality. Roger’s wife, Roxana, has already converted along with many of his subjects, while the city’s conservative and clerical factions clamour for the blasphemer’s death.

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