Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Opera Holland Park, LondonBeethoven, Janácek and private passions are played out to perfection in Laura Wade's Kreutzer vs Kreutzer. And against the odds, Lakmé soarsChamber music has its risks. The murderer in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata believes Beethoven's work, which gives the 1889 novella its name, is too hot to handle in polite society, let alone in the privacy of one's own home. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM on July 19, 2015