Barry Pierce: So, who had the idea to turn Festen into an opera? Mark-Anthony Turnage: I mean, we both did really. It’s been a real slow burn for me because I watched Festen, not when it first came ...

Robert de Niro, Gladiators exhibition, Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new operaRobert de Niro, Gladiators exhibition, Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new opera ...

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It’s a bold choice for the Royal Opera House mainstage treatment – or it would be for anyone other than Mark-Anthony Turnage, king of in-your-face operatic confrontation: Greek tragedy ...

Soup flavours are requested, small talk commences and we greet each other often with blinding falsity. But the pull for Mark Anthony Turnage’s Festen – especially for those not familiar with the 1998 ...

It seems strange that nobody has thought of turning it into an opera before, now that we have this hardly less compelling adaptation by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Lee Hall.