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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

0% | Apr 16, 2019 | Music

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.

Featured Crew

Nikolai Leskov
Original Story
Dmitri Shostakovich
Writer

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Aušrinė Stundytė
Katerina Lvovna Ismailova
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Dmitry Ulyanov
Boris Timofeevich Ismailov
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John Daszak
Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov

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