The main director of MAMTA, Alexander Titel, is about the banned opera by Shostakovich, the Zoomer generation and staff ...

CHOOSING a 20th century Russian composer to kick off its 2015-16 season may seem strange for an opera house that is trying to balance its books and attract a wider audience. But the new ENO director ...

Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is not only one a highlight of Russian opera, but one of the greatest pieces of theatre ever written. It is also one of the more controversial, for while sex and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic John Storgårds leads a stellar cast in a rare English-sung ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District .

MILAN (AP) — The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk '' with a 12-minute standing ovation Sunday, as the storied ...

Shostakovich’s bleak but compelling drama of brutality, domination and frustration – culminating in double murder – in a typical “quiet Russian family” returns to Covent Garden, for the first time ...