Pictures From An Exhibition begins moments from Modest Mussorgsky’s death, as the composer’s life flashes before his eyes. Vivid memories of his past and his closest relationships return in powerful fragments, staged by the combination of director Daniel Kramer (Angels In America, Punch And Judy), choreographer Frauke Requardt and poet James Fenton.

In this Sadler’s Wells and Young Vic co-production of Pictures From An Exhibition, Kramer and Requardt uncover a rich seam of emotion beneath the surface of Mussorgsky’s classical composition. The most powerful urges of worship and domination, love and loss, death and commemoration burst out of the music and onto the stage in a beautiful nightmare.

Generally acknowledged to be his greatest solo piano composition, Mussorgsky composed Pictures From An Exhibition in memory of his friend, the artist and architect Viktor Hartmann, in 1874.

Pictures From An Exhibition contains scenes of an adult nature and is suitable for theatregoers aged 14 and older. Theatregoers younger than five years old will not be admitted.

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