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Artiste: David Bazika

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The Devil’s Wall: Smetana’s last opera, at his birthplace

The Devil's Wall © František Renka
Glorious music and excellent singing can't mask a simplistic staging of Smetana's last opera, an uneasy combination of rom-com and medieval legend. 

Casting Trump as a 21st-century Brechtian villain

Donatienne Michel-Dansac (Donald Trump) © Martin Popelář
Donatienne Michel-Dansac is great in the lead at the Ostrava Days new music festival, leering, boasting and swaggering convincingly as the former US President. 

NODO winds down with phenomenal Oresteia

Despite the fact that few (if any) in the audience could understand ancient Greek, the emotions of the characters, and particularly the desperation of Mr Falk's Kassandra, came through with astonishing intensity.

Cígler and Ayres double bill in Ostrava

The third night of New Opera Days Ostrava took place in the Antonín Dvořák Theatre and consisted of a double bill of two hour-long operas.