Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.We have Stalin to blame for Shostakovich\u2019s failure to write more operas. After Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk had its premiere in Leningrad in 1934, the opera was officially denounced as \u201cMuddle instead of Music\u201d and banned for the best part of three decades, when it was revised as Katerina Ismailova.How much did we lose? The original Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk makes a knockout evening in the theatre. It has gruesomely black comedy, soaring love music, biting satire and some of the most sensational orchestral interludes ever heard in the opera-house. It is also dramatically enthralling.This recording comes from live performances at Boston\u2019s Symphony Hall in January last year. It forms part of an exhaustive project for the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich\u2019s death, which has seen Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform and record all the composer\u2019s symphonies, concertos and sundry orchestral works.An appreciable cast has been assembled. Kristine Opolais lets out some wild notes at times, but that is par for the course in the fearsome title-role. Brenden Gunnell makes a vocally muscular Sergei, her lover, and Peter Hoare and G\u00fcnther Groissb\u00f6ck are vivid as her husband Zinovy and his father, both soon joining the opera\u2019s pile of corpses.Nelsons leads a well-played performance with some fine solo playing, but do not forget the first-ever recording of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. That is truly feral. Nelsons and co sometimes seem tame by comparison.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk\u2019 is released by DG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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