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And a nappy new year… - December 2001 The Guardian - By Susannah Clapp - December 31st, 2001
Jerry Springer, trash TV personified, is the perfect subject for satirical treatment You might think twice about putting a nappy fetishist centre stage in an opera. But the very funny, very foul-mouthed, superbly sung Jerry Springer: The Opera did exactly that, and turned out to be one of the most original events staged last year.…
Transvestites, loud guests and Jerry Springer make for unusual opera - October 2001 The Detroit News - By Juliana Koranteng - October 10th, 2001
Opera aficionados beware. A new figure has entered the landscape of music’s most refined genre, and he brings with him the stories of trailer park tragedy and welfare woe. Yes, none other than Jerry Springer — the former Cincinnati mayor who hosts a self-titled talk show on which buxom women exchange violent blows over men…
At the trailer-trash opera, where Kylie told Stan that she’s really a man - September 2001 Independent on Sunday - By Rowan Pelling - September 2nd, 2001
It wasn’t, on the face of it, my idea of a stellar evening out: a workshop production of a chat-show-/opera. But Tom Morris, artistic director of Battersea Arts Centre (and brother of Chris as in Brass Eye), was brimming with enthusiasm for his new show. It seemed churlish to be deterred by the fact that…