Folie à Deux review – fatally lacking in dramatic momentum

Rich Mix, Spitalfields festival, London
Neither the score nor the staging of Emily Hall’s opera is strong enough to explore questions of sanity and madness other than at the most superficial levelThe phenomenon of folie à deux – whereby a psychotic disorder is shared by two people – is the subject of Emily Hall’s opera, which sets a libretto by the Icelandic writer (and regular Björk collaborator) Sjón.An unnamed man believes that a pylon outside his home is communicat