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A musical with lots of spare parts

In A high-security Californian laboratory, men and women of disconcertingly uniform appearance sing beneath a giant pink vat, the looming vessel filled to the brim with surgically-removed body parts. This is "man's highest creation" maintains Armando Iannucci. "The coming together of music, theatre, design, people and coughing." This is opera.

In A high-security Californian laboratory, men and women of disconcertingly uniform appearance sing beneath a giant pink vat, the looming vessel filled to the brim with surgically-removed body parts.