Name: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29
Start: 2025-02-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus Düsseldorf

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Deutsche Oper am Rhein

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Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein

Orchestra

Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Vitali Alekseenok

Stage director

Elisabeth Stöppler

Dramaturge

Anna Melcher

Costume designer

Su Sigmund

Set designer

Annika Haller

Chorus master

Gerhard Michalski

Bass

Andreas Bauer Kanabas

Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov

Tenor

Sergey Polyakov

Sergei

Valentin Ruckebier

Seargeant

Baritone

Thorsten Grümbel

Police inspector

Soprano

Anke Krabbe

Aksinia

First labourer

Torben Jürgens

Mill-worker

Old Convict

contralto

Maria Polanska

Sonyetka

Izabela Matuła

Ekaterina Lvovna Izmailova

Sergei Khomov

Shabby Peasant

Drunken guest

Coachman

A teacher

Benjamin Popson

Priest

Constantin Moței

A policeman

Russian

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29

Dusseldorf

Germany

Opernhaus Düsseldorf

Public

Keerthi Raj

German

Approved

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Video designer

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Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

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Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Bass-baritone

Singer

Contralto

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Katerina Ismailowa ist wohlhabend verheiratet und einsam, ihr Mann impotent und ihr Schwiegervater ein Tyrann. Sie ist eingesperrt in einer Welt, in der erbarmungslose Rohheit, Despotie und Grausamkeit herrschen. Die lebens- und liebeslustige Frau gibt ihrer rauen Sehnsucht nach Freiheit Raum, als Sergej bei der Familie Ismailow zu arbeiten beginnt. Sie wirft sich in eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit ihm und dem Schwiegervater Gift ins Essen. Doch die zunehmende Radikalität ihres Verlangens nach Selbstbestimmung wird weitere Opfer fordern ...

Wie weit darf ein Mensch gehen, um sich aus unwürdigen Verhältnissen zu befreien? Hier wird eine Frau niederträchtig zur Mörderin, und doch gilt ihr die Sympathie des 26-jährigen Komponisten Schostakowitsch. Seine groß angelegte, expressive Partitur zwischen tragischer Wucht und Satire, praller Groteske und erschütterndem Realismus, die nichts beschönigt und doch alles fühlbar macht, ist ein Meisterwerk des 20. Jahrhunderts. Regisseurin Elisabeth Stöppler und ihr Team erzählen nach der „Jungfrau von Orléans“ von Peter I. Tschaikowsky eine weitere radikal widersprüchliche Frauenfigur.

Deutsch

Katerina Ismailova is wealthy and lonely, her husband is impotent and her father-in-law is a tyrant. She is trapped in a world where merciless brutality, despotism and cruelty reign. The fun-loving and loving woman gives space to her raw longing for freedom when Sergei starts working for the Ismailov family. She throws herself into a passionate affair with him and her father-in-law. But the increasing radicalism of their desire for self-determination will demand further victims...

How far can a person go to free themselves from unworthy circumstances? Here a woman vilely becomes a murderer, and yet she has the sympathy of the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich. His large-scale, expressive score, between tragic force and satire, full-on grotesqueness and shocking realism, which glosses over nothing and yet makes everything tangible, is a masterpiece of the 20th century. Director Elisabeth Stöppler and her team tell another radically contradictory female character after Peter I. Tchaikovsky's “Maid of Orléans”.

English

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29 by Shostakovich, From (2025/2025), Directed by Elisabeth Stöppler,, Conductor Vitali Alekseenok, Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

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