Alexander Raskatov's new opera A Dog's Heart comes to ENO in November, but Simon McBurney's production is first shown in Amsterdam, where it opened yesterday.
Mikhail Bulgakov's story of a scabby mongrel who turns into a human after a bit of dodgy Russian plastic surgery is told with the aid of oddly realistic puppetry from the Blind Summit company. A couple of excellent promo videos from De Nederlandse Opera explain more:
