Theatre· Stuttgart
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich based on a Nikolai Leskov novella, telling the story of Katerina Izmailova, a lonely merchant's wife in 19th-century Russia who embarks on an affair with a farmhand and turns to murder. Its 1934 premiere was hugely successful, but Stalin denounced it in 1936 ("Muddle Instead of Music"), leading to its ban for decades—making the work as fam