"Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk," by Dmitri Chostakovitch, will be on stage beginning April 2 through April 25, 2019, at the Opera Bastille, Paris.Premiered in 1934 in Leningrad, the opera in four acts and nine parts was quite a topic among the critiques. After it was first premiered, "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" had been touring successfully for two years, before Joseph Stalin came to hear Chostakovitch's opera. Soon after, P…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:21AM on April 1, 2019