The Gulbenkian Foundation mounted a superb production of Janacek's last opera, "From the House of Dead", first performed in 1930, after the Czech composer's death. A staged concert performance, with video projection, a great cast and musical direction by the finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, this show revealed a great work, taut, relentless, dramatic, which certainly places Janacek in the canon of XXth century classical music. In Lisbon, January 6 and 7th 2011.
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