His 1946 opera, The Rape of Lucretia, is one of Benjamin Britten’s most highly charged pieces, which harrowingly portrays the emotional and interpersonal effects of the brutal act of rape. As it says on the tin, the story centres around the traumatic rape of Collatinus’ wife (played by Tom Herring) by the Prince of Rome. [...]
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