Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:opera
gptkbp:authorOfSourceMaterial gptkb:Nikolai_Leskov
gptkbp:basedOn gptkb:Lady_Macbeth_of_the_Mtsensk_District_(novella)
gptkbp:composer gptkb:Dmitri_Shostakovich
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:criticizedFor gptkb:article_'Muddle_Instead_of_Music'
condemned by Pravda in 1936
gptkbp:duration approximately 2 hours 45 minutes
gptkbp:genre tragic opera
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)
gptkbp:language gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:librettist gptkb:Dmitri_Shostakovich
gptkb:Alexander_Preys
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Boris_Izmailov
gptkb:Katerina_Izmailova
gptkb:Sergei
gptkb:Zinovy_Izmailov
gptkbp:notableAria Seryozha, my darling
gptkbp:notableConductor gptkb:James_Conlon
gptkb:Mstislav_Rostropovich
gptkb:Mariss_Jansons
gptkbp:notableProduction gptkb:Metropolitan_Opera_(2014)
gptkb:Royal_Opera_House_(2004)
gptkbp:notableRecording gptkb:Galina_Vishnevskaya_(1962)
Anja Silja (1979)
Eva-Maria Westbroek (2006)
gptkbp:numberOfActs 4
gptkbp:orchestration large orchestra
gptkbp:period 20th century
gptkbp:premiereDate 22 January 1934
gptkbp:premiereLocation gptkb:Leningrad_Maly_Opera_Theatre
gptkbp:revisedDate 1962
gptkbp:revival post-Stalin era
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Mtsensk,_Russia
gptkbp:style modernism
expressionism
gptkbp:subject gptkb:murder
adultery
oppression of women
gptkbp:updated gptkb:Katerina_Izmailova_(opera)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Katerina_Izmailova
gptkb:Lady_Macbeth_of_Mtsensk_(directed_by_Richard_Jones)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6