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A heartwrenching Káťa Kabanová in Auckland

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“the clean white window frames are more like prison bars for Káťa”
Reviewed at Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Auckland on 19 September 2017
Janáček, Kátya Kabanová
New Zealand Opera
Wyn Davies, Conductor
Patrick Nolan, Director
Dina Kuznetsova, Kátya
Angus Wood, Boris
Margaret Medlyn, Kabanicha
Andrew Glover, Tichon
Conal Coad, Dikój
Robert Tucker, Kuligin
Hayley Sugars, Varvara
James Benjamin Rodgers, Kudrjaš
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