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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Opera in four acts and nine parts (1934)
Apr 16, 2019 3h 0m
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Of Shostakovich’s initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although one of the mainsprings of the work, the Shakespearean parallel is here bitterly ironic: unlike Lady Macbeth, Katerina Ismaïlova who, in the remote reaches of rural 19th century Russia, falls in love with one of her husband’s employees and is finally forced to commit suicide, is less a manipulator than a victim of a violent and patriarchal society. Krzysztof Warlikowski liberates all the subversive power of this scorching and scandalous work, which marked the early years of the Opéra Bastille.

Title Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Companies Opéra National de Paris
Countries France
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Aušrinė Stundytė

Aušrinė Stundytė

Katerina Lvovna Ismailova
Dmitry Ulyanov

Dmitry Ulyanov

Boris Timofeevich Ismailov
John Daszak

John Daszak

Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov

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