Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Quick reference
A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.)
... Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( Ledi Makbet Mtsenskago Uezda ) ( Shostakovich ). Lib. by comp. and Aleksandr Preis; 4 acts; f.p. Leningrad (St Petersburg) 1934 , cond. Samuil Samosud . Russia, 1865 : Katerina Ismailova is unhappily married to Zinovy Ismailov , son of Boris Ismailov . While her husband is working away, she interrupts Sergei , the servant, molesting the cook, Aksinya . Boris himself lusts after Katerina and sends her to her room, but Sergei follows and they make love. Boris catches Sergei leaving Katerina's room and sends for...
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Quick reference
The Grove Book of Operas (2 ed.)
...the original version has replaced the revised Katerina Izmaylova in the repertory of Western opera houses. In the Soviet Union, however, the revised version was recognized as definitive. It was not until 1996 that the original version was heard – in concert – in Russia. A full production was staged in Moscow, in 2000 . ‘Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’ (Shostakovich), English National Opera, 1992, directed by David Pountney The following synopsis corresponds to the ori‐ginal 1932 version of the opera. A ct 1.i Katerina's bedroom Katerina, the...
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Music
...Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The ( Ledï Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda ) . Opera in four acts by Shostakovich to a libretto by the composer and Aleksandr Preys after the short story by Nikolay Leskov ( 1865 ) (Leningrad, 1934 ). Shostakovich revised it as Katerina Izmaylova (Moscow, 1963 ) but for reasons of political compromise; the original version is regarded as...
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
... Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The ( Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo uyezda [ Russ .] ) Opera in 4 acts by Shostakovich to lib. by composer and A. Preys after short story by N. Leskov ( 1846 ). Comp. 1930–2 . Prod. Leningrad 1934 , Moscow 1934 (2 days later under title Katerina Izmaylova ), Cleveland 1935 , London (concert) 1936 . Opera had nearly 200 perfs in two years in Moscow and Leningrad. In Jan. 1936 Stalin and Soviet officials attended Moscow perf at Bolshoy Th. and two days later an article, inspired and perhaps even written by ...
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
... Macbeth of the Mtsensk District . A formerly controversial opera by Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906–75 ), with a libretto by the composer and A. Preys , after an 1865 story by Nikolai Leskov ( 1831–95 ) about a woman who, somewhat in the manner of the wife of Shakespeare's Macbeth, lives and dies by violence. It was first performed in 1934 and proved popular until the Soviet authorities started to show their disapproval of Modernism in 1936 . In that year Pravda sinisterly commented: ‘It is a leftist bedlam instead of human music. The inspiring...
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Nino Sanzogno
Katerina Izmaylova
Ismailov, Zinovy
Ismailov, Boris
Sonyetka
Aksinya
Boris
Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi
Chaos instead of music
Ismailova, Katerina
Ivan Dzerzhinsky
A Soviet Artist's Practical Creative Reply to Just Criticism
Sergei
