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On April 27, ENO unveiled a new work, From Morning to Midnight, based on a 1916 play by the German Expressionist Georg Kaiser and composed by David Sawer. At forty, Sawer is an admired figure on the British new-music scene, a pupil of the maverick Cologne-based Argentinean music-theater specialist Mauricio Kagel, though his own output -- substantially a group of intricately wrought chamber and orchestral pieces -- is more orthodox. In 1991, Sawer produced a one-act chamber opera called The Panic for Royal Opera's Garden Venture series of small-scale works. From Morning to Midnight is far grander, with a large cast, chorus and vast orchestra, its uninterrupted performing ...