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In Knut Nystedt's reinterpretation of Bach's funeral song and Toshio Hosokawa's music that accompany the film, the words suggest that death is not an ending but a new companion and a fresh encounter.

Martinů (pictured left in his American exile in 1943, a a decade and a half before he composed the opera) was displaced himself when he wrote the opera, having left his native Czechoslovakia some ...

This is doubly striking because the adaptation, by Berkoff himself, sticks closely to the play text. It pulls none of the play’s punches, neither the hits nor the (more numerous) misses; it shares its ...