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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Lady_Macbeth_of_Mtsensk_(opera)
GPTKB entity
Statements (43)
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