Barbican, LondonThis adaptation of Luchino Visconti's 1969 film, performed by the Comédie-Française, is full of startling set pieces When Luchino Visconti's movie, The Damned, opened in 1969 it was described as "the Krupp family history as Verdi might have envisaged it." If Visconti's film was operatic, Ivo van Hove's stage version is cinematic: live action is projected on to an upstage screen which also shows do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM on June 20, 2019