Katja Kabanova, Staatsoper Berlin, Schiller Theater, Berlin, January 2014
Posted on 26 January 2014At the end of this post-apocalyptic vision of the opera, when Katya sings how quiet and beautiful everything is she is standing by a bathtub. Suddenly as the men sing that a woman has thrown herself into the water, she gets into the tub, slits her wrists and dies. The singers look out at the …