The most intriguing of the three operas staged this autumn is a world premiere adaptation, by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Rachael Hewer, of Edith Nesbit’s classic The Railway Children, transposed to the Cold War era. There are also re-runs of Peter Hall’s 1981 staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Floris Visser’s 2022 […]