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A finely sung Katya Kabanova in rust-bucket Russia

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“Lawless creates a stifling atmosphere of claustrophobia amongst the tangled steel and riverbed reeds”
Reviewed at Theatre Royal, Glasgow on 12 March 2019
Janáček, Kátya Kabanová
Scottish Opera
Stuart Stratford, Conductor
Stephen Lawless, Director
Leslie Travers, Set Designer
Laura Wilde, Kátya
Ric Furman, Boris
Patricia Bardon, Kabanicha
Samuel Sakker, Tichon
Paul Whelan, Dikój
Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, Kudrjaš
Hanna Hipp, Varvara
Alexey Gusev, Kuligin
Bethan Langford, Glaša
The Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera Chorus
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