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English National Opera's contribution to the centenary of Michael Tippett looked, on paper, somewhat tangential--just two performances of the first-ever staging of his oratorio A Child of Our Time (January 21). Tippett, after all, composed five operas, of which ENO has a perfectly good production of King Priam in stock. ENO also has a limited tradition of staging oratorios, though neither Deborah Warner's production of Bach's St. John Passion nor Phyllida Lloyd's of the Verdi Requiem did much more than suggest that such pieces clearly do not belong in the theater. Yet Jonathan Kent's version...
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