Stanislavsky Theatre
Performed in Russian The performance has 2 intermissions Running time: 3 hours 15 minutes Just 750 metres from the Bolshoi Theatre, the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre invites you to experience a landmark operatic event: the premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in its original 1934 version. The production features outstanding soloists and ensemble artists — performers who have appeared on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre and were trained at the same leading academies as Bolshoi artists. Their shared artistic heritage ensures the highest level of vocal mastery and dramatic depth. This production marks a historic return to the score first staged here by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko himself — a daring work that once shocked its era with its emotional rawness, psychological intensity, and uncompromising truth. Nearly a century later, the opera regains its full dramatic force, sounding sharper, darker, and more relevant than ever. Directed by Alexander Titel and conducted by Fyodor Lednev, the performance reveals Lady Macbeth not only as a personal tragedy, but as a powerful reflection on desire, violence, freedom, and moral choice. Shostakovich’s music moves from brutal irony to piercing lyricism, holding the audience in constant tension. An essential experience for opera lovers seeking bold repertoire, historical authenticity, and world-class performance — right in the heart of Moscow’s cultural district. | ||||||||||
