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  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Opera

    Dmitri Chostakovitch

    Opéra Bastille - from 02 to 25 April 2019

    Philippe Dollo

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Opéra Bastille - from 02 to 25 April 2019

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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Opera Dmitri Chostakovitch

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Opéra Bastille - from 02 to 25 April 2019

3h25 with 1 interval

Language : Russian

Surtitle : French / English

  • Pre-Opening : 2 April 2019

    Opening night : 6 April 2019

    Under 40 ans : 16 April 2019

Certain scenes may be inappropriate for the young and the easily offended.

About

In few words:

Of Shostakovich’s initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although one of the mainsprings of the work, the Shakespearean parallel is here bitterly ironic: unlike Lady Macbeth, Katerina Ismaïlova who, in the remote reaches of rural 19th century Russia, falls in love with one of her husband’s employees and is finally forced to commit suicide, is less a manipulator than a victim of a violent and patriarchal society. Krzysztof Warlikowski liberates all the subversive power of this scorching and scandalous work, which marked the early years of the Opéra Bastille.

  • Opening
  • First part 100 mn
  • Intermission 30 mn
  • Second part 63 mn
  • End

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Audio clips

Lady Macbeth de Mzensk (saison 18/19)- Acte I

Lady Macbeth de Mzensk (saison 18/19)- Acte IV - Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Le Vieux Bagnard) Et Chœur

Lady Macbeth de Mzensk (saison 18/19)- Acte II - Pavel Černoch (Serguei)

Lady Macbeth de Mzensk (saison 18/19)- Interlude Orchestral

Media coverage

  • Une Lady Macbeth de Mzensk puissante et poignante

    L’Humanité, Maurice Ulrich, 08/04/2019

  • Il est même assez rare que l’on quitte une représentation avec un tel sentiment de plénitude, prenant de bout en bout, sans temps mort ni maillon faible.

    Le Figaro, Christian Merlin, 08/04/2019

  • La puissante œuvre lyrique de Chostakovitch, bénéficie d’une superbe relecture de Warlikowski.

    Le Figaro, Christian Merlin, 08/04/2019

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Ce spectacle fait l’objet d’une captation coproduite par l’Opéra national de Paris et Telmondis, avec le soutien du CNC et de la Fondation Orange, mécène des retransmissions audiovisuelles de l’Opéra national de Paris. Ce spectacle sera retransmis en direct le 16 avril 2019 avec le concours de Fra Cinéma, dans les cinémas UGC, dans le cadre de leur saison « Viva l’Opéra ! » et dans des cinémas indépendants en France et dans le monde entier.
Radiodiffusion sur France Musique ultérieurement.

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