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Hong Kong Arts Festival – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a bleak and challenging modern opera, which although originally read as a sharp...
Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a bleak and challenging modern opera, which although originally read as a sharp...
Thursday night saw the Hong Kong Arts Festival move to the unusual venue of St John’s Cathedral in Mid...
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