Baba Yaga: Songs & Dances of Death is a thrilling new production, created in partnership with Beethovenfest Bonn, and given its full premiere tonight. It combines music, dance, spoken word and a specially commissioned song cycle by Elena Langer, to explore Baba Yaga, the mysterious figure from Slavic folklore, and her related female archetype, the Death-Skeleton Woman in Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death. Devised by mezzo-soprano Rowan Hellier, who is sought after both as a singer and an innovative curator, the programme includes music ranging from Dvořák to Heggie. Rowan is joined by dancers Ana Dordevic and Carola Schwab and pianist Sholto Kynoch. The choreography is by Andreas Heise.