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Mommie dearest: Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová in Oslo

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“Tone Kummervold’s girlish Varvara was a ray of light in a sea of darkness”
Reviewed at Oslo Opera House, Main Stage, Oslo on 5 September 2015
Janáček, Kátya Kabanová
Norwegian National Opera
Tomáš Hanus, Conductor
Willy Decker, Director
Wolfgang Gussmann, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Kari Postma, Kátya
Hege Høisæter, Kabanicha
Pavel Černoch, Boris
Tone Kummervold, Varvara
Thorbjørn Gulbrandsøy, Kudrjaš
Nils Harald Sødal, Tichon
Szymon Kubiak, Kuligin
Magne Fremmerlid, Dikój
Norwegian National Opera Chorus
Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
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