A Dog's Heart 2010

An new opera by Alexander Raskatov
Based on the Novel by Michael Bulgakov
Directed by Simon McBurney
Designed by Michael Levine
Puppetry by Blind Summit
2010

​Blind Summit designed, directed and operated "Sharik", the street dog narrator of the story - a four person operated god forsaken creature, made of rubbish, who is changed into a man when a professor operates on him and inserts the pituitary of a man into him.

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"Dazzling... Hallucinatory cocktail of silent movie melodrama "
- Financial Times ★★★★

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"Nothing less than absurdly good"
- Peter van der Lint, Trouw

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FINANCIAL TIMES ★★★★★
INDEPENDENT ★★★★
GUARDIAN ★★★
WHAT'S ON STAGE ★★★★★
THE EXPRESS ★★★★
MUSIC OMH ★★★★★

Premiere: De Nederlandse Opera 2010

Revivals: ENO, Lyons, La Scala

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