D. Shostakovitch LADY MACBETH OF THE MTSENSK DISTRICT
| Performers: | The Opera Company of the NM Theatre | |
| Date: | 6. 10. 2020 | |
| Time: | 19:00 | |
| Town: | Praha | |
| Place: | The State Opera |
C A N C E L E D
Shostakovich composed this progressive and dissonant work of brutal emotionality for instrumental solos, choirs and intermezzos. At first the opera was hugely successful, with 180 repeat performances; however, in the period of the Great Terror the composer was condemned in the anonymous article Muddle Instead of Music (1936) and the opera was not performed again until the 1960s.