蕭士塔高維契: 歌劇(穆森斯克郡的馬克白夫人) 英戈.梅茨馬赫 指揮 Ingo Metzmacher / Shostakovich: Macbeth von Mzensk

(2CD)蕭士塔高維契: 歌劇(穆森斯克郡的馬克白夫人) 

英戈.梅茨馬赫 指揮  

維也納國立歌劇院管弦樂團暨合唱團

 

In 1930, Dmitri Shostakovich began to work on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: based on the plot by Nikolaj Leskov, the opera tells the story of the oppressed Katerina, who is torn out of her life by an intense love for the shady Sergei and wants to secure her happiness with murder. When it was completed in 1934, the work was simultaneously prepared by two theatres: the premiere took place in Leningrad, and two days later it was shown in Moscow – where, as in other cities, the opera was a great success. Shortly after the first performances, Shostakovich was already forced to change some of the passages that were all too sexually explicit. After Stalin visited a performance of the opera in 1936 and then published a scathing review about it, colleagues and critics, who had previously approved of the opera, turned against Shostakovich. It was only about 30 years later that the piece was performed again in the Soviet Union, in a toned-down version under the name Katerina Ismailova, which was also performed internationally. It was only in 1980 that the original version came to Western Europe, and in 2009, the Vienna State Opera performed the original version of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for the first time – the version featured on this recording.

 

Ingo Metzmacher conducts the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. He is a welcome guest at the most important opera houses in Europe and at the Salzburg Festival, where he has conducted the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos as well as Bernd Alois Zimmermanns Die Soldaten, Franz Schuberts Fierrabras and George Enescus Oedipe, among others. He is also the author of books on opera and modern composers.