Review: Opera Is Not the Cat's Pjs ; Culture Varjak Paw Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry ***

Birmingham Post › November 03, 2008

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SF Said's books about a Mesopotamian Blue kitten are apparently best-sellers, but that doesn't seem to have translated into a huge interest in this operatic treatment, to judge from the small turn- out for Saturday night's performance.

The Opera Group, widely admired for its promotion of new small- scale opera, commissioned it from composer Julian Philips, with a libretto by Kit Hesketh-Harvey.

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Review: Opera Is Not the Cat's Pjs ; Culture Varjak Paw Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry ***

The idea of making opera for children and families is an interesting one...

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