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DAVID NICHOLSON enjoys the youthful exuberance that energised Dmitri Shostakovich’s comedic take on Soviet bureaucracy
A hilarious take on the communist maestro’s production [Craig Fuller]


Cherry Town, Moscow
WNO Youth Opera, Cardiff Bay

 

YOUTH will have its day and Cherry Town, Moscow, is a bonkers and brilliant production in equal measure.

Welsh National Opera’s Youth Opera have put together a must-see production of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s operetta.

The unprepossessing story is about the building of high-rise blocks of flats in Moscow to solve the post-war housing crisis.

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