The murderer will not appear on stage, though the opera is to bear his name (Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel). “These are women who are just names, whose identity is defined by their death. The work has not yet come to the stage; it must not be prejudged. It is not impossible to make a searching and thoughtful stage show out of the wreckage of real acts of brutal violence against women. Dramatising the destruction of women is not only, of course, a convention of the operatic stage.

Source: The Guardian May 06, 2018 18:11 UTC