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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29 (Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда, romanized: Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda, lit. 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District') is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ( Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda) is an 1865 novella by Nikolai Leskov. It was originally published in Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's magazine Epoch .
Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is a tragic novella about how passion and freewill can lead to one’s downfall. The story is set in nineteenth-century Russia...
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich) Track 1 on Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Featuring. Nikolai Leskov & Alexander Preis. Alternatively...
Shostakovich wrote his masterpiece Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, when he was barely 30 years old, a work that takes opera to new, intense and erotic heights. The heroine’s unbearable loneliness, suffocating social conventions and love, burning with explicit sexuality, combine in a mixture of incendiary lyricism and excruciating irony.
The opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, first performed in Leningrad in 1934, is a tale about the pursuit of self-fulfilment. Yet, the outcome is lawlessness and the deaths of four people. Shostakovich tells the story using idiosyncratic music that simmers, smoulders and erupts.
Jan 22, 2018 · Opera Profile: Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’. By Logan Martell. Making its premiere on January 22, 1934, “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” is adapted from a novel of the same name written by Nikolai Leskov.
