with her love poems, then endured all the worst horrors of 20th-century Russia--world wars, revolutions, Stalin. Like many other creative artists, her life was endangered by state scrutiny of her art.How does an artist respond to life under such twisted conditions? This is the central issue raised by Bruno Mantovani's second opera "Akhmatova," which had its world premiere at the Opéra Bastille last week.
from The New York Times: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World
then Financial Times: Akhmatova, Paris Opera (Bastille)
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