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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk DistrictNouvelle production

Schillertheater: Großer SaalBismarckstraße 110, Berlin, 10625, Allemagne
Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de Berlin
samedi 31 janvier 202619:00
vendredi 06 février 202619:00
dimanche 08 février 202618:00
mardi 24 février 202619:00
jeudi 26 février 202619:00
dimanche 01 mars 202618:00
samedi 07 mars 202619:30
samedi 14 mars 202619:30
Artistes
Komische Oper Berlin
James GaffiganDirection
Barrie KoskyMise en scène
Rufus DidwiszusDécors
Victoria BehrCostumes
Olaf FreeseLumières
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
Chor der Komischen Oper Berlin
David CaveliusChef de chœur
Dmitry UlyanovBasseBoris Timofeyevich Izmailov
Elmar GilbertssonTénorZinoviy Borisovich Izmailov
Ambur BraidSopranoKaterina Lvovna Izmailova
Sean PanikkarTénorSergey
Susan ZarrabiMezzo-sopranoSonyetka
Mirka WagnerSopranoAksinya
Marcell BakonyiBarytonPolice inspector
Jens LarsenBassePriest
Stephen BronkBasseOld Convict
Caspar KriegerTénorTattered peasant

After bringing Dmitri Shostakovich’s early opera The Nose to life in a wonderfully grotesque staging, Barrie Kosky now turns his attention to a far more radical work by the Russian composer: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a dark tale of sex and violence featuring one of opera’s most fascinating female characters.

Young and married into wealth, Katerina is nonetheless utterly miserable. Longing for love and joy, she finds herself trapped in a life of dreary boredom, neglected by her impotent husband and humiliated by her cruel father-in-law. In her loneliness, Katerina embarks on a passionate affair with the reckless womanizer Sergei. What begins as an erotic escape soon spirals into a series of chilling murders...

Premiering in 1934, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk broke numerous taboos of the time. Sexual acts and murderous intrigues are laid bare within an orchestral soundscape that is as erotic as it is brutal. As if that weren’t provocative enough, the composer also consistently sympathizes with his anti-heroine, a woman who, despite all her violent deeds, cannot help but move most every heart.

The 2025 Year of Shostakovich will be celebrated at the Komische Oper with a season of his works: opening with his Trio chamber composition, it then moves to the main stage with an opera double bill featuring The Nose and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, both under Barrie Kosky’s inimitable direction.

© Jan Windszus Photography
© Jan Windszus Photography
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