The Music Troupe

A new operetta for five singers.

Passions are aroused by an Arts Council exhibition in London 1971 in which art becomes a matter of life and death - for the Catfish.

The Press is indignant: 'Animal cruelty!' 'Is this art?'

Spike Milligan, the Arts Council, the artist and, finally, President Reagan all have their say.

And the Catfish? Could this be the only opera in which the heroine is killed - and eaten?

Music and text by Edward Lambert, directed by David Edwards.