Alastair Shuttleworth's Night at the Opera

To celebrate the start of Proms season and 50 years of Philip Glass’ mind-bending, five-hour-long opera ‘Einstein On The Beach’, writer and broadcaster Alastair Shuttleworth explores how modern experimental music warped the opera world. From audience-baffling works in the early-1900s to bizarre, beautiful creations by Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk and The Knife, Alastair tells the century-long story of how operas went from offering normal, popular nights out to presenting some of the weirdest shows on Earth.