Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, English National Opera, ENO, London Coliseum, September 2015
Posted on 27 September 2015A woman trapped in comfortable domestic surroundings, while her husband’s busy world goes on all around, takes a lover. Her actions and emotions spiral out of control, her once luxurious bedroom vanishes and she ends up in a prison cell — such is the setting well realised by director Dmitri Tcherniakov … apart from the …