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A serious work from HK Gruber at the end of a long career of hilarity A serious work at the end of a long career of hilarity from the consummately Viennese composer HK Gruber
A supposedly satirical fable was reduced to an exhausting visual display of comic piggery
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David Pountney’s lakeside production is colourful, loud – and surprisingly boring
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