Hello and welcome to the Europeans podcast with for the first time ever a married Katie Lee. How was it Katie?

Oh, it was lovely, thank you. I got married at Town Hall and then we had lunch on a boat that was flying the Ukrainian flag. It was very beautiful.

And now I'm looking forward to my honeymoon in Berlin next week, Dominic.

With me.

With you, my other husband. Yeah, it's not a very conventional honeymoon that I'm going with Dominic instead of my actual husband, as well as our producers, Katz and Vojek.

But that shouldn't let it get on

the way of being a beautiful and romantic trip. I really think you've misunderstood the concept,

but fine. I've never had one before. I'm happy you're straight back to work on the podcast with me.

Yeah, no rest for the wicked. Thank you for sharing her with me, Alex.

How are you, Dominic Kramer? Yeah, I'm fine. Nothing as

exciting as a wedding, but I did start rehearsal this week on a new production of an opera called

Freyschutz here in Amsterdam, and it's directed by this guy, Kirill Sera Brenikov, who you might

have heard about. He's this really interesting Russian film and theatre director who, yeah, I'm sure a lot of

people will have heard about him because he was in the news a lot the last few years because

he was put under house arrest in 2017 for apparent fraud charges, which were seen by most

people in my industry as simply being a way to keep him locked away because Putin and the Kremlin

didn't

like the work he was making, work that was critiquing authoritarianism and featured LGBT characters.

And yeah, in fact, he's been in the papers again just this week because the Bolshoi Theatre

in Moscow has cancelled his performances because he's been publicly critical of Russia invading Ukraine.

He managed to get out of Russia at the end of March. I think he's now living in Berlin,

but he's now in Amsterdam rehearsing with me and lots of other people. And yeah, it's really

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