Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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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Aušrinė Stundytė

Katerina Lvovna Ismailova

Dmitry Ulyanov

Boris Timofeevich Ismailov

John Daszak

Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov

Oksana Volkova

Sonyetka

Ingo Metzmacher

Conductor

Art

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Production Design

Directing

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Stage Director

Sound

Ingo Metzmacher

Conductor

Dmitri Shostakovich

Original Music Composer

Writing

Nikolai Leskov

Original Story

Art

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Production Design

Directing

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Stage Director

Sound

Ingo Metzmacher

Conductor

Dmitri Shostakovich

Original Music Composer

Writing

Nikolai Leskov

Original Story