AUDITORIUM

✮✮✮✮ Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk The Royal Danish Opera | Copenhagen Peter Konwitschny | Alexander Vedernikov The circumstances surrounding the early success of Shostakovich’s second and last opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and its wholesale suppression by Stalin’s regime two years later, are so well known that one is tempted to view the work as an act of insurrection. But in fact, Stalin’s unbending response to the piece as”muddle instead of music” notwithstanding

✮✮✮✮ Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage Krudttønden | That Theatre Company | Copenhagen directed by Harry Burton A few years ago that master satirist Yasmina Reza proposed being a disciple – if not the deity – of a new genre: ‘funny tragedy’. If Marx was right about history repeating itself, first as tragedy then as farce, then this pile-up of genre seems a logical progression. And there’s nothing more tragically funny than the call to arms of those who cry “think of the children,