Are we trapped or can we escape ourselves?

Shostakovich’s buddy, composer of the soviet Winnie the Pooh and an almost forgotten 20th century jewish master composer: An Essay on Mieczysław Weinberg and his opera The Idiot at Musiktheater an der Wien in the staging of Vassiliy Barkhatov

30% weinberg renaissance / 100% it’s more than time! / 200% self-doomed, russian and ironic