Angel’s Bone review – frenetic and unsettling allegory of human trafficking marks ENO’s Manchester debut

Aviva Studios, Manchester Kip Williams’ in-the-round staging, with the action live-projected onto enormous screens, can be disorientating, but Du Yun’s Pulitzer-winning work is compelling and kaleidoscopic English National Opera takes a bold leap , selecting one of the most uncompromising pieces of 21st-century music theatre for the first new opera staged in its northern base. Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, which won the Chinese American composer the 2017 Pulitzer prize, tackles human trafficking head o