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Derrière le rideau de fer, l’Humanité : Warlikowski exhume De la Maison des morts à Lyon

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“une virulente réflexion politique et un hymne au théâtre et à l’humanité”
Reviewed at Opéra Nouvel, Lyon on 29 January 2019
Janáček, From the House of the Dead
Opéra de Lyon
Alejo Pérez, Conductor
Krzysztof Warlikowski, Director
Małgorzata Szczęśniak, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Sir Willard White, Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov
Pascal Charbonneau, Aljeja
Štefan Margita, Luka Kuzmič (Filka Morozov)
Ladislav Elgr, Skuratov
Dmitry Golovnin, Šapkin
Károly Szemerédy, Šiškov
Alexander Vassiliev, Prison governor
Nicky Spence, Big prisoner/Nikita
Graham Clark, Elderly prisoner
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Drunk prisoner
Aleš Jenis, Prisoner as Don Juan and Brahmin
John Graham-Hall, Kedril
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Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon
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****1
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*****
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**111
La Cenerentola in Edinburgh: comic direction to savour
****1
Marton turns Don Giovanni into a wrist-slashing wimp
**111
Darkness and grandeur in Christophe Honoré's Don Carlos
****1
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