Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
When:
Tuesday, Jan 23, 2024 6:55p -
Saturday, Jan 27, 2024 9:00p
Tuesday, Jan 23, 2024 6:55p -
Saturday, Jan 27, 2024 9:00p
Where:
Boston Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
Unknown
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Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Music
This performance is the most ambitious endeavor in the BSO and Andris Nelsons’ multi-year survey of the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, just as Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was an immense undertaking for its 24-year-old composer. Shostakovich began the score in late 1930, basing it on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella of the same name; the story is a dark portrayal of Katerina Ismailova, the oppressed, ambitious, and ultimately murderous wife of a provincial merchant. The opera was a worldwide sensation following its 1934 premiere, but after Josef Stalin attended a performance in January 1936, an unsigned Pravda editorial titled “Muddle instead of Music” unequivocally damned the piece and put Shostakovich in real danger. The composer responded by hastily writing the ostensibly heroic, triumphant Fifth Symphony, thus surviving the first of many confrontations with Stalin and the Soviet regime.
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