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The week in classical: Khovanshchina; Carmen review – the parallels with modern Russia are unmissable

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The week in classical: Khovanshchina; Carmen review - the parallels with modern Russia are unmissable

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By Fiona Maddocks
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Dawn over the Moskva River. The bells of the Kremlin, deep and massive, toll. Red Square, deserted in the early morning, is pocked with the violence of a mob uprising the night before. Russia is in turmoil. So begins Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81), unfinished at his death from alcoholic delirium at the age of 42, and one of the unsolved riddles of the operatic repertoire.
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The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Parsifal; Yunchan Lim - review

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By Fiona Maddocks
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T-shirts emblazoned with “Save our WNO” are now default concert uniform for the orchestra of Welsh National Opera, a silent protest in the pit while playing with customary supreme professionalism. When called on stage with their instruments to take a curtain call at the end of WNO’s new Peter Grimes, the applause in Cardiff’s Millennium Centre was deafening. This dress code began last summer, when funding cuts to WNO were announced, referred to several times in this column.
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