COLOURFUL PALETTE: Designer Dan Potra’s striking set and costumes for The Portrait – Picture; Bill Cooper
OPERA North’s British premiere of Weinberg’s The Portrait is arrives at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, this month.
Based on a short story by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, it is about a poor but talented artist, who acquires a painting in a Petersburg art shop that exerts a diabolical influence over his life, granting him wealth and success, but at the cost of his artistic soul.
The Polish composer Weinberg, who was both influenced and championed by Shostakovich, has fashioned a powerful opera as a tale for our times. See review, opposite page The performance, in English, is next Friday, February 18, at 7.30pm. Tickets start at £15 from the box office on 08448-112121 or visit theatreroyal.co.uk.
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