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A study in black and terror: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in Naples

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“a dark, gloomy story as unambiguously told as it should be”
Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 15 April 2018
Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Teatro di San Carlo
Juraj Valčuha, Conductor
Martin Kušej, Director
Martin Zehetgruber, Set Designer
Heide Kastler, Costume Designer
Natalia Kreslina, Katerina Lvovna Izmailova
Elena Mikhailenko, Katerina Lvovna Izmailova
Ladislav Elgr, Sergey
Ludovit Ludha, Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov
Dmitry Ulianov, Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov
Julia Gertseva, Sonyetka
Vladimir Vaneyev, Old Convict
Goran Jurić, Priest
Carole Wilson, Aksinya
Vasily Efimov, Schoolmaster
Evgeny Akimov, Tattered peasant
Alexander Teliga, Police inspector
Vladimir Sazdovski, Policeman
Coro del Teatro di San Carlo
Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
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