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The British press reviews for the London premiere were negative.

Andrew Clements ' review in The Guardian berated the effort, declaring that it was " both shocking and outrageous that the Royal Opera, a company of supposed international standards and standing, should be putting on a new opera of such wretchedness and lack of musical worth.

" Andrew Clark of the Financial Times stated that the " only reason we find this slick perversion of Orwell on the Covent Garden stage is because super-rich Maazel bought his way there by stumping up the production costs ," while Rupert Christiansen in the Daily Telegraph dismissed it as " operatic fast food.