"The scene with Aksinya is a very rough, brutal rape scene. The difficulty for the director is to represent it on stage, along with an extremely complex musical challenge, which can pose great difficulties for the singers on stage. As a director you reach the limits of musical theatre. The conductor wants his story to be musically perfect. The director wants to show the origins and truth of the scene. I think we succeeded, and credit is mainly due to Carole Wilson. She plays this big and difficult part in this scene."