STEWART COPELAND

It’s a bizarre sort of ensemble, a kind of genre-busting supergroup. Distributed carefully about the [Royal Opera House] stage in a smallish studio theatre are stars of theatre, opera, the recital hall and, in a random invasion from left field, the stadium. The assembled include Derek Jacobi on spoken voice, Simon Keenlyside on sung voice, Natalie Clein on cello and Iain Burnside on piano. And wandering in beardedly from the rock and roll hall of fame, that’ll be none other than Sting. Plus his wife Trudi Styler....