Opera review: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden - The Times

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Opera review: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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The plots of operas are ludicrous, aren't they? I mean, imagine a world in which deranged Russians went round poisoning each other and then made black comedy out of it afterwards. True, Katerina Ismailova, the “Lady Macbeth” of Shostakovich's 1934 ...