LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's first operas is coming to a London venue made famous by Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison: Monteverdi's 400-year-old "Orfeo" opens at the Roundhouse on Tuesday.
Theater director Michael Boyd, a veteran of Shakespeare stagings who is directing his first opera, thinks the converted former railway shed is especially suited to the 17th-century work, which is about Orpheus's descent into the underworld to try to rescue his wife Euridice.
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