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Bravo, WNO Youth Opera
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A hilarious take on the communist maestro’s production
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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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