The read
It runs long at 2h 58m.
Synopsis
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.
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Key crew
- Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer
- Alexandre PreisWriter
- Dmitri ShostakovichWriter
- Krzysztof WarlikowskiDirector
- Stéphane MetgeDirector
Cast
- Aušrinė StundytėKaterina Lvovna Ismailova
- Pavel CernochSerguei
- Dmitry UlyanovBoris Timofeevich Ismailov
- Sofija PetrovicAksinya
- John DaszakZinovy Borisovich Ismailov
- Krzysztof BaczykA priest
- Oksana VolkovaSonyetka
- Ingo MetzmacherConductor