‘Really great art takes life as it is and portrays it as it is’: Yankovskaya on the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Opera Now

London, UK

“In a year where the English National Opera has made the headlines with a complex state of funding affairs, it is yet to deter them from inspired collaborations, such as with the Russian-American conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya. At tonight’s debut of Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, she leads a company with an uncertain future but delivering huge impact with a work of this emotional size.”