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A Dog's Heart
- Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam - June to July 2010
- English National Opera, London - November to December 2010
- Video Designer
- Finn Ross
- Animator
- Ian William Galloway
- Researcher
- Gerard Nijssen
- Adam Young
Complicite's Simon McBurney directs his first opera, a co-production between Complicite and Dutch National Opera. Dog's Heart is a new opera by Russian composer Sasha Raskatov, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's short story, The Heart of a Dog.
Moscow, 1925, a Stray dog is taken from the street by seemingly respectable professors who turn him in to a literal and metaphorical monster that consumes everything, the story is seen as an allegory on post-revolutionary Soviet political and power structure.
The video is a mixture of live and recorded footage with a great deal of stop frame animation that is used along with everything on stage to build by hand the world of the show.
Read the Financial Times 4 star review here
Read the New York times review here
See the highlights video of the show here
Set - Michael Levine
Ligthing - Paul Anderson
Cotsume - Christina Cunningham