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An arresting From the House of the Dead at Welsh National Opera

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“unwaveringly superb playing of the WNO Orchestra”
Reviewed at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 8 October 2017
Janáček, From the House of the Dead
Tomáš Hanus, Conductor
Sir David Pountney, Director
Maria Björnson, Set Designer
Ben McAteer, Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov
Mark Le Brocq, Luka Kuzmič (Filka Morozov)
Paul Charles Clarke, Big prisoner/Nikita
Quentin Hayes, Small prisoner
Robert Hayward, Prison governor
Alan Oke, Skuratov
Adrian Thompson, Šapkin
Simon Bailey, Šiškov
Julian Close, Prisoner as Don Juan and Brahmin
Welsh National Opera Chorus
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Chris Ellis, Lighting Designer
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