Britten-Pears Orchestra/Alsop review – vivid Britten and Bartók

Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
Marin Alsop inspired individuality and panache, and led a zinging European premiere of a special John Adams workLola Montez’s extraordinary story has been told in films, and could in itself be a whole opera, with characters including her lovers Alexandre Dumas, père, Liszt and Ludwig I of Bavaria. But American theatregoers feted her as a cabaret hoofer, and that’s the cameo John Adams gives her in his Girls of the Golden West, which will premiere at S