The first broadcast performance of a new opera with music by Benedict Mason and text by Howard Brenton , given by Opera North at the Grand Theatre, Leeds. Playing Away is a livid, vicious travesty of the Faust legend, and its target is the football scene, with its stars, officials, hooligans and wheeler-dealers. Presented by Piers Burton-Page . (tenor) (soprano) (mezzo)(bantone) (bass) (bar) (mezzo)(bass) (mezzo) (countertenor) (sop)
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