Event listing: From the House of the Dead | Leeds Grand Theatre | Thu 5 May 2011 at 19:30

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Leeds Grand Theatre Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS1 6NZ, United Kingdom

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Programme

Janáček, Leoš (1854-1928)

Performers

Opera North
Alan Oke	Tenor	Skuratov
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts	Tenor	Luka Kuzmič (Filka Morozov)
Robert Hayward	Baritone	Šiškov
Richard Morrison	Bass	Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov
Claire Wild	Mezzo-soprano	Aljeja

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Opera North search for 'the spark of God' in Janáček's From the House of the Dead

Laura Kate Wilson, 5th May

In a promotional video for Opera North's new production of From The House of the Dead, director John Fulljames gives us two seemingly opposing views on Leoš Janáček's final opera- that it is “the most intense opera of the twentieth century,” but also a piece in which “very little happens.