Whether Scottish Opera needed a new production of Kátya may have been debatable. After all, the Pountney staging of 1979 was perfectly acceptable and had never been revived. (Perhaps the sets had simply failed to survive storage). In the event, the new version was a disappointment, with very little of the cumulative dramatic power which this astonishing opera usually supplies in spades. All the singers were good, but the drama hung fire, and Richard Armstrong seemed off form. Just to be perverse, the company did revive this one, giving it a radical rethink in 1999, turning it into the best run of the work to have been seen in Scotland. Typically, of course, it has not been seen since.
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