To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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.
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
DAVID NICHOLSON is thrilled – and shocked – by an opera that seethes and sizzles with passion and the depraved use of power
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER


