The performance, which was to take place in the prison chapel, consisted of a 50-minute opera about Ivor Novello’s incarceration in HMP Wormwood Scrubs, and a piano recital on Novello’s own piano there.
The performance, which was to take place in the prison chapel, consisted of a 50-minute opera about Ivor Novello’s incarceration in HMP Wormwood Scrubs, and a piano recital on Novello’s own piano there.
This 50-minute chamber opera is based on a possibly-true story of when Welsh icon Ivor Novello, the darling of the West End, was imprisoned in 1944 for fiddling his wartime petrol coupons.
Brian Butler finds a 30-year-old play is still brutally shocking
