Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Sex, Stalin and Shostakovich: the story of the 1934 opera the Soviet leader walked out of

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par Pauline Fairclough, Professor of Music, University of Bristol

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 novella, it tells the story of the lonely Katerina Izmailova, who falls in love with one of her husband’s workers, Sergei, and is driven to murder. In his opera adaptation, Shostakovich inserted…

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