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   'As stage director, Martin Kusej has taken orgasm and murder as
   the linchpins of his production. There is no concern here for
   what consenting adults might get up to in private. Most of the
   action takes place in a rectangular glass house that can only
   incite the cast to throw as many stones at each other as they
   can grab. It is the frustration of Katerina Macbeth that sparks
   the action. If her brute of a father-in-law and sadly inadequate
   husband have to be murdered in the cause of sexual gratification,
   so be it. The tragedy is that her factory pick-up is as worthless
   as the men she has despatched with the aid of rat-poison (a very
   Russian ploy, it would seem) and the use as hammer of a candlestick.'

- an extract from Robert Anderson's illustrated review of the recent
Netherlands Opera/Opus Arte DVD of Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth of
Mtsensk' in today's Music & Vision Magazine

Keith Bramich
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Technical editor, M&V