‘I didn’t know contemporary opera existed’

Isabel Lovell
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Despite growing up in a choral family, Isabel Lovell thought opera was a product of the past. When she found out Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze – an opera by a living composer – was being performed in her native Sheffield and was looking for local participants, her love for contemporary opera blossomed

Practice makes perfect: Lovell in rehearsals for Jonathan Dove's Monster in the Maze, which retells the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur © Andy Brown
Practice makes perfect: Lovell in rehearsals for Jonathan Dove's Monster in the Maze, which retells the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur © Andy Brown

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