FURLANETTO. Yeah, wow, he can almost carry the whole scene by himself, even in that staging. He's AMAZING. Dima is trying hard too, I can see, although yeah, I think he needs a bit more micromanaging than it looks like he got.

I do actually think they did a better job on the blocking/choreography here -- like, I can see that they were sort of thinking about the metal rods being a way to signify dividing people from each other, so at least there's some sort of method. In the 2019 it was mostly just a hot mess of people wandering around and/or singing at the audience, ugh.