Organization

Conductor

Jakub Klecker

Stage director

Jiří Nekvasil

Set designer

Daniel Dvořák

Video designer

Otakar Mlčoch

Costume designer

Marta Roszkopfová

Choreographer

Marek Svobodník

Lenka Dřímalová

Jana Tomsová

Chorus master

Jurij Galatenko

Dramaturge

Eva Mikulášková

Singer

Bass

Martin Bárta

Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov

Tenor

Josef Moravec

Zinovy Borisovich Izmailov

Aleš Briscein

Sergei

Soprano

Veronika Holbová

Aksinia

Marek Pobuda

Old handbook

Jakub Kettner

Sweeper

Václav Morys

The first day laborer

Aleš Burda

The second day laborer

Waldemar Wieczorek

The third day laborer

Rudolf Medňanský

Impoverished little man

Marek Gurbal

Priest

Baritone

Roman Vlkovič

Police inspector

Jiří Halama

Drunken guest

Petr Urbanek

Guard

Anna Nitrová

Sonnet

Bogdan Kurowski

Old Convict

Slovak National Theatre

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29

Bratislava

Slovakia

Slovak National Theatre Historical Building

Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda Shostakovich

Public

Approved

Dmitry Shostakovich wrote the opera Lady Macbeth of the McNensky District on a libretto by Alexander Preis based on the short story of the same name by Nikolai Leskov. It is one of the most important musical-dramatic works of the twentieth century, "tragedy-satire", an image of a corrupt society standing on the unestablished power of sexuality. This is embodied by Katarína, a frustrated and oppressed housewife who leaves only the dead behind. Shostakovich played this dissonant game of brutal emotionality using solo concertant instruments, choirs and interludes. The opera was initially an unprecedented success, almost 180 repetitions, but in the days of Stalin's terror the composer was condemned in the politically tendentious article Chaos instead of music, and the opera was not performed until the 1960s.

English

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29 by Shostakovich, From (2018/2018), Directed by Jiří Nekvasil,, Conductor Jakub Klecker, Slovak National Theatre Historical Building, Bratislava, Slovakia

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Program, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues