Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Aušrinė Stundytė

Katerina Lvovna Ismailova

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Pavel Cernoch

Serguei

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Dmitry Ulyanov

Boris Timofeevich Ismailov

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Sofija Petrovic

Aksinya

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John Daszak

Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov

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Krzysztof Baczyk

A priest

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Oksana Volkova

Sonyetka

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Ingo Metzmacher

Conductor

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Original Music Composer	Dmitri Shostakovich
	Conductor	Ingo Metzmacher
Writing	Writer	Dmitri Shostakovich Alexandre Preis
	Original Story	Nikolai Leskov
Directing	Stage Director	Krzysztof Warlikowski
Art	Production Design	Małgorzata Szczęśniak
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