![]() ![]() A tight and intense story of obsession and destruction – a cross between black comedy, bloody thriller and tragic drama. His ambitious works are often at the interface between musical and opera – nowhere more so than in Sweeney Todd, the morbid shock success of 1979. In a corrupt world that wears people down – what rescue is there?įew composers and lyricists in the world of musicals, if any, have been as admired and influential as Stephen Sondheim, who died in 2021. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review dazzling Broadway revival Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian. ![]() London in the mid-19th century is a soulless, industrialised society whose losers seek revenge in a mechanical and undiscriminating way. ![]() By way of assistance he has Mrs Lovett, who bakes meat pies to a recipe that is the stuff of nightmares. When the embittered Sweeney Todd hears that his wife has died he takes up his old profession as a barber – with the aim of murdering all hateful people who cross his path. Sondheim's horror-filled Broadway classic SWEENEY TODD at the Royal Swedish Operaīroadway moves into the Royal Swedish Opera. ![]()
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