How to approach the issue of climate breakdown in art? To do so obliquely risks minimising its urgency, but go head-on and you risk hectoring or slipping into cliche. In its UK premiere, Julia Wolfe’s oratorio unEarth ultimately tilted towards the latter, although it made some striking impressions on the way.
Produced by Wolfe’s collective Bang on a Can
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