Film
The Rape of Lucretia
1987Music
United Kingdom- Director
- Michael Simpson
- Year
- 1987
With ancient Rome as a backdrop, composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera chronicles the undoing of the virginal Lucretia at the hands of Tarquinius. Stars Kathryn Harries, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Russell Smythe and Jean Rigby imbue the lead roles with fervor and suspense while the English National Opera Orchestra provides spectacular musical accompaniment to this powerful synthesis of Greek tragedy and opera.
Top cast
Directed by
Michael Simpson, Graham Vick
Written by
Ronald Duncan
