Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
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"Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" is a provocative opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, based on Nikolai Leskov’s novella, renowned for its intense drama, modernist musical language, and the political controversy it sparked in the Soviet Union.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District canonical | 2 |
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Target entity: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Context triple: [Dmitri Shostakovich, notableWork, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District]
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Target entity: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Target entity description: "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" is a provocative opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, based on Nikolai Leskov’s novella, renowned for its intense drama, modernist musical language, and the political controversy it sparked in the Soviet Union.
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A.
Masbeth
Maspeth is a residential and industrial neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, known for its diverse community and mix of row houses, warehouses, and small businesses.
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B.
Miss Julie
Miss Julie is a naturalistic tragedy by Swedish playwright August Strindberg that explores class conflict, gender power dynamics, and psychological struggle through the doomed relationship between an aristocratic woman and her servant.
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C.
Macbeth
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that follows a Scottish nobleman’s bloody rise to power after a prophecy and his own unchecked ambition drive him to murder and tyranny.
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D.
Jezebel (play)
"Jezebel (play)" is a stage drama that served as the source material for the 1938 Bette Davis film about a headstrong Southern woman whose defiance leads to personal and social ruin in antebellum New Orleans.
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E.
Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya is a renowned tragicomic play by Anton Chekhov that explores unfulfilled lives, wasted potential, and emotional turmoil in a rural Russian estate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | opera ⓘ |
| acts | 4 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (novella) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Nikolai Leskov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogueNumber | Op. 29 ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | withdrawn from Soviet repertoire ⓘ |
| cityOfPremiere | Leningrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Dmitri Shostakovich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| critic | Pravda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
20th-century opera
ⓘ
opera ⓘ tragic opera ⓘ |
| hasPrologue | no ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Russian literary realism
ⓘ
expressionist opera ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| librettist |
Alexander Preis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dmitri Shostakovich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Boris Izmailov
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Katerina Izmailova NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergei NERFINISHED ⓘ Zinovy Izmailov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
expressionist
ⓘ
modernist ⓘ |
| notableArticle | Muddle Instead of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
graphic violence
ⓘ
intense drama ⓘ sexual explicitness ⓘ |
| notableRecording | Mstislav Rostropovich recording ⓘ |
| orchestration | large orchestra ⓘ |
| politicalContext | Stalin-era Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalReception | condemned by Soviet authorities ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1934-01-22 ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Leningrad Maly Opera Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForCondemnation |
bourgeois decadence
ⓘ
formalism ⓘ |
| revisedAs | Katerina Izmailova NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revisionCompletionYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
adultery
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murder ⓘ oppression of women ⓘ provincial Russian life ⓘ |
| vocalForces |
chorus
ⓘ
orchestra ⓘ soloists ⓘ |
| withdrawalPeriod | late 1930s ⓘ |
| yearOfPravdaAttack | 1936 ⓘ |
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Subject: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Description of subject: "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" is a provocative opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, based on Nikolai Leskov’s novella, renowned for its intense drama, modernist musical language, and the political controversy it sparked in the Soviet Union.
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