A return trip to this highly worthwhile opera will undoubtedly enable more to be discovered within it

A strong revival of the Royal Opera's production of Philip Venables' powerful opera

The bleak brilliance of Philip Venables’s opera 4.48 Psychosis hits home

Sarah Kane's last play is adapted for opera and loses none of its power to intrigue and upset

There is genuine musico-theatrical imagination

A first revival for the Royal Opera's 2016 opera derived from Sarah Kane's final play

Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis is simply the most recent, and perhaps most graphic, example of psychological opera

Venables’s opera makes Kane’s rage and despair musically eloquent and emotionally fulfilling

Extraordinarily accomplished