Lady Macbeth von Mzensk by Shostakovich, From (2023/2023), Directed by Angelina Nikonova,, Conductor Kent Nagano, Staatsoper, Hamburg, Germany

A woman becomes a murderess, and yet she has the sympathy of the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich. Katerina Ismailova - perpetrator and victim at the same time - frees herself from the merchant world full of stupidity, greed and cruelty by poisoning her husband in order to be able to live with her lover. In addition, music of radical vitality, which vehemently expresses the right to one's own desire, to ruthlessly lived freedom. The international success from Leningrad to New York, from Stockholm to Zurich came to an abrupt end when Stalin announced his displeasure. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was also a fateful work for the composer