Oedipe review – Jurowski makes case for Enescu's 'lost masterpiece'

Royal Festival Hall, London
The anti-Freudian Oedipus opera may not flawless, but this performance with the LPO was a superb and beautiful achievementThe London Philharmonic opened its new season with a concert performance of Oedipe, George Enescu’s only opera, first heard in Paris in 1936. It was greeted with near incomprehension in its composer’s lifetime, and it is only in the past two decades that its qualities and stature have been acknowledged. When the Royal Opera staged it la