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The Royal Opera has taken its time, since the reopening of the Covent Garden Theater five years ago, in getting around to using the Linbury Studio Theatre, its small-scale auditorium, for a homegrown production. Apart from a worthwhile children's opera called Babette's Feast (Nov. 2002), the company's staging of Britten's 1946 The Rape of Lucretia (seen April 29) was the first in the Linbury, which up until now has seen visiting companies bringing work of varying degrees of distinction.
The opera was cast almost entirely from present and past members of the ROH's Vilar Young Artists Programme, whose participants appear on the main stage, generally in small roles, ...