The Maiden in the Tower/Kashchei the Immortal – review

Opera House, BuxtonBuxton's double bill brings together two rarities: Sibelius's only completed opera, The Maiden in the Tower, from 1896, and Rimsky-Korsakov's late one-acter Kashchei the Immortal, premiered in 1902. Both are sung in Rodney Blumer's clear English translations. Working with the same cast of five in each, director Stephen Lawless stresses some striking narrative similarities by treating the two operas as a sequence, with the characters in the first transmuting into those of the ...

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