MILAN (AP) — The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk '' with a 12-minute standing ovation Sunday, as the storied ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. La Scala opened its season with Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtensk,” a Russian opera censored by Stalin. Peace ...

Shostakovich’s Katerina Izmaylova (composed in 1963) is usually described as the revised version of the composer’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (completed in 1932). However, perhaps it would be best to ...

The main director of MAMTA, Alexander Titel, is about the banned opera by Shostakovich, the Zoomer generation and staff hunger. Banning a work for 30 years is a disaster, says Alexander Titel. The ...

As the political pressure on the arts became stronger and stronger in pre-World War II Soviet Union, composer Dimitri Shostakovich developed an array of techniques to evade it. He wrote works for mass ...

Fairly obvious, of course, why it’s being done now. This concentrated dramatisation of Shostakovich’s Romances on British Poetry and Britten’s Pushkin cycle The Poet’s Echo is just one of four such ...