Rent Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (2015)
Fiona Shaw takes on Britten's emotionally heart-wrenching and lyrically beautiful opera.
The cast includes Christine Rice (Lucretia), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus) and Louise Alder (Lucia) with conductor Leo Hussain and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Recorded live at Glyndebourne Opera House, Festival 2015.
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The Rape of Lucretia - full opera
‘Opera at its most nakedly powerful’.
This is how the Daily Telegraph described Fiona Shaw’s production of The Rape of Lucretia, first presented on the Glyndebourne Tour 2013 in celebration of the centenary of one of England’s greatest composers.
Britten coined the term ‘chamber opera’ to descr...