Meanwhile, the Guardian's Judith Mackrell was struck by the "grotesquely expressionist staging of Mussorgsky's first nightmare, in which a demon limps with horrid nimbleness on to the stage, reaches under the composer's infant-style nightgown and pops one of his testicles into his mouth." (Sadly, Mackrell does not say precisely whose mouth and whose testicle are involved here. All four configurations are unpleasant, to be sure, but two at least would be gymnastically impressive.)
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