Opera Profile: Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' - OperaWire

Opera Profile: Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk'
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Making its premiere on January 22, 1934, “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” is adapted from a novel of the same name written by Nikolai Leskov. The opera was banned for nearly thirty years by the Communist Party in Russia after it was deemed to be ...