Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2019)

Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Stéphane Metge

“Opera in four acts and nine parts (1934)”

Music · 2h 58m

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

A
Aušrinė Stundytė Katerina Lvovna Ismailova Pavel Cernoch Serguei
D
Dmitry Ulyanov Boris Timofeevich Ismailov
S
Sofija Petrovic Aksinya John Daszak Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov
K
Krzysztof Baczyk A priest
O
Oksana Volkova Sonyetka
I
Ingo Metzmacher Conductor

Crew

Director
Krzysztof Warlikowski, Stéphane Metge
Writer
Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexandre Preis
Original Music Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich

Details

Release date
2019-04-16
Runtime
2h 58m
Genres
Music
Original language
RU
Spoken languages
Russian
Countries
France
Production
Opéra National de Paris