From the House of the Dead review – Welsh National Opera’s landmark staging demands to be heard

Millennium Centre, CardiffWelsh National Opera’s revival brings David Pountney’s 1982 version back to grim and glorious life and restores Janáček’s original musical visionJanáček’s adaptation of Dostoevsky’s partly autobiographical novel, set in a Siberian prison camp, is not an opera for the fainthearted. The fate of those incarcerated in a hell pit … Read entire story.

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