Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at the Gran Teatre de Liceu, Barcelona - Sergi Panizo Fotografia In January 1994, a random electrical ...
For weeks we had been discussing whether to take the kids to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the opera now seething across the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. We had season tickets for them, and our ...
The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich set Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk to a libretto he wrote together with Alexander Preis after the eponymous novella by Nikolai Leskov. He himself referred to the ...
Yes, there's life after the Ring cycle for Canadian Opera Company. The troupe's splendid new production of the difficult "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" proves that its impressive mounting of the Wagner ...
There is nothing quite like this for full-on impact in the operatic world, not at least at the superlative level regularly attained by Graham Vick's performers. They include a chorus of all abilities ...
Scene 1. Katerina Lvovna leads an unhappy existence in the home of her husband, the distinguished merchant Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov. The marriage has produced no children. Katerina spends her time ...
Who’s to say whether the new directorate at English National Opera would have sanctioned importing Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s flaky Deutsche Oper staging, already a known quantity when former artistic ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” by Dmitri Shostakovich, a tale of love and betrayal once banned in Soviet Russia, is returning to the Metropolitan Opera. By ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The company started its season performing “Medea,” “Idomeneo” and “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” three of opera’s most distinctive ...
A jinx has hung over Shostakovich's most important opera. The first succeeded in banning the work in the Soviet Union and its satellites until long after Stalin's demise. The most recent cost the Los ...