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PragueSweeney Todd

Adam Plachetka (Sweeney Todd) and Barbora Perná (Mrs Lovett) © Serghei Gherciu
Sondheim: Sweeney Todd
Anna Pozidis; Martin Čičvák; The Czech National Opera; Richard Hein; Hans Hoffer; Georges Vafias; Jan Dörner

PragueSweeney Todd

Prague National Theatre
Sondheim: Sweeney Todd
Anna Pozidis; Martin Čičvák; The Czech National Opera; Richard Hein; Hans Hoffer; Georges Vafias; Jan Dörner
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Hitting all the wrong notes: Sweeney Todd at Prague State Opera

Adam Plachetka (Sweeney Todd) and Barbora Perná (Mrs Lovett) © Serghei Gherciu
Strong singing and sharp choreography cannot rescue a hybrid version of Sweeney Todd staged by director Martin Čičvák.

Nabucco in Prague: handsome but over-ambitious

Ivo Stánchev (Zaccaria) © Zdeněk Sokol
Andriy Yurkevych leads a rousing musical performance, but this visually impressive Nabucco tries to hard to be relevant and misses the mark.

Warner’s Elektra has neither myth nor menace

The main problem with Keith Warner's staging is that the director’s dominating focus is on the Jungian ‘Elektra complex’ rather than Elektra the opera.

Dancing through Dostoyevsky: The House of the Dead in Prague

Making his operatic debut at Prague's National Theatre, director Daniel Špinar recasts Janáček’s From the House of the Dead as a schizophrenic prison comedy.