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 ...

In January 1994, a random electrical spark started a fire that destroyed much of Barcelona’s famous Liceu opera house, once the biggest in Europe. It took until 1999 to rebuild the theatre with a ...

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...

At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 ...

Here's the plot: "A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera filmed at Hungarian State Opera in Budapest Shostakovichs Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk a lurid tale of sex murder and corruption premiered in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich set Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk to a libretto ...

Shostakovich’s infamous 1934 opera, which led to his denunciation by the Stalin regime, roared with visceral fury at Symphony Hall The myth behind Shostakovich’s 1934 opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” ...

Although initially enjoying great success, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934) has courted controversy almost from day one. Being condemned from various quarters for its lurid descriptive ...

"Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" is on stage at Symphony Hall Jan. 25 and 27 before heading to Carnegie Hall at the end of the month. Myles McCaul was an Associate Producer for the GBH News arts and culture ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The orchestra, under Andris Nelsons, gave a clear and controlled concert performance of Shostakovich’s crushing opera at Carnegie Hall. By Zachary ...