‘There is this intense rise in fascism’: Simon McBurney on a 19th-century opera that feels painfully familiar
- Posted on April 16, 2025
- By Financial Times
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‘There is this intense rise in fascism’: Simon McBurney on a 19th-century opera that feels painfully familiar

The British director has resurrected Mussorgsky’s unfinished work ‘Khovanshchina’ for the Salzburg Easter Festival