CAST:
Vladimir Vaneev (Boris Timofeevic)
Vsevolod Grivnov (Zinovij)
Jeanne-Michèle
Charbonnet
(Katerina
Izmajlova)
Sergej
Kunaev (Sergej)
Nanà
Miriani (Aksin’ja)
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Conductor:
James Conlon
Director: Lev Dodin
Sets & Costumes: David
Borovsky
Lights:
Jean Kalman
Photo credit:
© Archivio Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino
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Performed at
Teatro del Maggio Musicale,
Florence
Even though it was acclaimed at the
time of its creation, Shostakovich’s
opera Lady Macbeth was
condemned in the Soviet Union in
1936, 2 years after the first
performance, and banned for almost
thirty years. It tells the story of
the unhappy Katerina who is driven
to murder so she can pursue her
romance with Sergei, one of her
husband’s workers.
In
1998, Florence’s Maggio Musicale
(one of Europe’s most prestigious
Summer Music Festivals, and the
eldest along with Salzburg, Bayreuth
and Glyndebourne) offered a
remarkably powerful production of
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,
directed by Lev Dodin with sets and
costumes by David Borovsky. This
work was acclaimed by the public and
won the Abbiati Prize for best
operatic show of the year, the most
prestigious Italian music award
given by the Italian Association of
Music Critics.
Ten years later, we have the great
privilege to enjoy this production
conducted by Maestro James Conlon.
Maestro Conlon, one of the world’s
leading conductors, is music
director of the Los Angeles Opera,
music director of the Cincinnati May
Festival, and in residency at the
Juilliard School, working with the
school’s young artists. |
