Hermione Eyre

World-class music, heavily symbolic staging: Glyndebourne’s Katya Kabanova reviewed

I hadn't realised how much I'd missed watching the exquisite torment of singers squeezing themselves into ambitious directorial conceptions

Katerina Knezikova excelled as Katya in Glyndbourne's new production, even when fitting herself into a small iron birdcage. Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith
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