Theatre· Esslingen Am Neckar
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
**Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk** is a short story by Nikolai Leskov (1865) about Katerina Izmailova, a merchant's wife in provincial Russia who, trapped in a loveless marriage, takes a lover and commits a series of murders to pursue her passion—a tragic tale of desire and cruelty in the merchant class. The story is also famously the basis for Dmitri Shostakovich's 1934 opera *Lady Macbeth of the Mtsens