Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Katerina Ismailova is wealthily married and lonely, her husband impotent and her father-in-law a tyrant. She is trapped in a world where merciless brutality, despotism and cruelty reign. The woman with a lust for life and love gives way to her raw longing for freedom when a new labourer Sergei starts working for the Ismailov family. She throws herself into a passionate affair with him and poisons her father-in-law's food. But the increasing radicalism of her desire for self-determination will claim further victims...

• Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer
• Dmitri ShostakovichWriter
• Alexander PreisWriter
• Elisabeth StöpplerDirector

• Andreas Bauer KanabasBoris Timofeyevich Izmailov
• Jussi MyllysZinoviy Borisovich Izmailov
• Izabela MatulaKaterina Lvovna Izmailova
• Sergey PolyakovSergei
• Anke KrabbeAksinya
• Sergej KhomovTattered peasant
• Valentin RuckebierSteward
• Torben JürgensPorter / Old Convict
• Beniamin PopPriest
• Thorsten GrümbelPolice Inspector
• Maria PolańskaSonyetka
• Constantin MoțeiPoliceman