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Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from women in 19th-century European society, adultery, provincial life (thus drawing comparison with Flaubert's Madame Bovary) and the planning of murder by a woman, hence it having a title inspired by the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth from his play Macbeth, and echoing the title of ...
Despite early success on popular and official levels, Lady Macbeth became the vehicle for a general denunciation of Shostakovich's music by the CPSU in early 1936: after being condemned in an anonymous article (sometimes attributed to Joseph Stalin but actually authored by David Zaslavsky [1]) in Pravda, titled "Muddle Instead of Music", it was banned in the Soviet Union for almost thirty ...
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District or Lady Macbeth of Mtensk may refer to: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, by Nikolai Leskov; Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, by Dimitri Shostakovich; Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, film directed by Roman Balayan; Siberian Lady Macbeth, film directed by Andrzej Wajda
Lady Macbeth quickly spread to opera houses worldwide, cementing Shostakovich's status as an international celebrity. In the Soviet Union it received instant praise. The newspaper Sovetskoe iskusstvo honored Lady Macbeth as "a triumph of musical theatre", [3] while Sovetskaya muzyka called it "the best Soviet work, the chef-d'oeuvre of Soviet ...
Lady Macbeth is a 2016 British period drama film directed by William Oldroyd and produced by Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly. Written for the screen by Alice Birch, it is based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. It stars Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie (in her film debut) and Christopher ...
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда, romanized: Ledi Makbet Mtsentskogo uyezda) is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Roman Balayan, based on the eponymous novella by Nikolai Leskov.
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In 2017, he became music director at Theater Bremen, conducting Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mzensk District. [2] He conducted there in 2019 Korngold's Die tote Stadt, and was credited with a successful revival of the music by his fervent and passionate dedication "(mit seinem glutvollen und leidenschaftlichen Einsatz)". [7]