http://www.mvdaily.com/ '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 [log in to unmask] Technical editor, M&V