Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century and was acclaimed as such at its premiere in 1934.
It enjoyed tremendous success – until 1936, when political disapproval led both to the opera’s repression by the Soviet authorities and to years of persecution for Shostakovich. The fates of composer and opera eventually recovered, with Lady Macbeth a precious survivor from that dark period. It is now celebrated as the great operatic statement from a composer who, in other circumstances, might have made many other contributions to the genre.
Richard Jones’s 2004 production – The Royal Opera’s first of Shostakovich’s original 1932 version – was rapturously acclaimed at its premiere. Jones combines darkest tragedy with mordant satirical humour in a production described by the Financial Times as ‘ingeniously conceived and devastatingly executed’ and by The Independent as ‘a benchmark alchemy of music and theatre
At the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden from 12 to 27 April 2018, book your Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk tickets today!
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