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James Laing

Head of KGB

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Lynne Hockney

Tenor

Adrian Dwyer

Alexander Litvinenko

Soprano

Rebecca Bottone

Marina Litvinenko

Mezzo-soprano

Olivia Ray

Anna Politkovskaya

Baritone

Edmund Danon

Andrei Lugovoy

Conductor

Stephen Barlow

Stage director

Stephen Medcalf

Video designer

Will Duke

Lighting designer

John Bishop

Stephan Loges

Boris Berezovsky

Set designer

Jamie Vartan

Joseph Buckmaster

Male 1

John Ieuan Jones

Male 2

Phil Wilcox

Male 3

Grange Park Opera

English

The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko

Surrey

United Kingdom

Grange Park Opera, Surrey

Exiled and living in London, former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko becomes Putin’s most ebullient and needling critic. He learns that his former colleagues are using his face for target practice; a law is passed that allows Russian traitors to be killed anywhere in the world.

Just a few months later – in November 2006 – Litvinenko is poisoned with radioactive Polonium-210.

Alexander Litvinenko was a man who solved his own murder. As he lay dying, he worked with Scotland Yard detectives, and tracked the lethal dose to his former colleague – and football fan – Andrei Lugovoy.

This real-life story is told through a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards covering events in Russia that lead Litvinenko to seek exile and his family’s life in Muswell Hill. Extensive use is made of historic film footage.

The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko

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