Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2019)
3h
Running Time
April 16, 2019Release Date

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2019)
3h
Running Time
April 16, 2019Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Aušrinė Stundytė
Katerina Lvovna Ismailova

Pavel Cernoch
Serguei

Dmitry Ulyanov
Boris Timofeevich Ismailov

Sofija Petrovic
Aksinya

John Daszak
Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov

Krzysztof Baczyk
A priest

Oksana Volkova
Sonyetka

Ingo Metzmacher
Conductor

Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer / Writer

Alexandre Preis
Writer

Nikolai Leskov
Original Story

Małgorzata Szczęśniak
Production Design
