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UCL in the News: Fiesque

12 March 2008

George Hall, 'The Guardian' The 19th-century French composer Edouard Lalo is remembered for his Symphonie Espagnole and his opera Le Roi d'Ys.

Yet his earlier work, Fiesque … was shelved for 140 years. …

Now University College Opera presents the opera's first UK production, revealing it as a work of some stature. …

Emma Rivlin's production delivers both the crowd scenes and the personal confrontations with success, with the student chorus clearly enjoying the moments of insurrection. …

Fiesque may not have much of a past but, on this showing, it has a future. …