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.
Genre: Music
Stars: Aušrinė Stundytė, Pavel Cernoch, Dmitry Ulyanov, Sofija Petrovic, John Daszak, Krzysztof Baczyk
Crew: Małgorzata Szczęśniak (Production Design), Dmitri Shostakovich (Original Music Composer), Alexandre Preis (Writer), Nikolai Leskov (Original Story), Dmitri Shostakovich (Writer), Ingo Metzmacher (Conductor)
Country: France
Language: Pусский
Studio: Opéra National de Paris
Runtime: 180 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 16, 2019
IMDb: 10
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