The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko

About the show

The opera follows Alexander Litvinenko from his FSB service and experiences in Chechnya to his public denunciation of corruption and escape to Britain. He and Anna Politkovskaya exchange information; after she is murdered, former colleague Andrei Lugovoy poisons Litvinenko with polonium. The opera returns to Litvinenko’s hospital deathbed, where his wife sings a lament.