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Brundibar, The Prisoner and Fidelio, Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Let my people go Hans Krása's Brundibár is perhaps the only opera given its early performances by a cast on death row. Written for a competition, it was first performed in 1942 in the Jewish orphanage in occupied Prague. The second performance was put on in the place...
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Porgy & Bess, Grange Park Opera
Midsummer murders Grinding poverty and death at knife-point. A dinner interval. More poverty, drug dependency, a hurricane, another stabbing. Then a drive home through leafy Surrey. An evening spent at Porgy & Bess at Grange Park Opera does throw up some extreme...
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THE CONSUL, MILLENNIUM CENTRE, CARDIFF
No waiting Second up in WNO’s imaginative ‘Rhyddid/Freedom’ season is Gian Carlo Menotti’s political opera from 1949. Well known to American TV audiences as the composer of the children's Christmas TV opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, Menotti is hardly a household...
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The Hunting Gun, Aldeburgh Festival
Misfire The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue, a great Japanese 20th-century author, is a complex, subtle tale involving three women, sexual betrayal by one of them with the husband of another, a daughter’s viewpoint, and the adulteress’s suicide. We get diverse...
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