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Ledy Macbeth Mtsenskovo uyezda (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District) - 1934

Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 - 1975

Libretto by Shostakovich and Alexander Preis based on the story 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District' by Nikolai Leskov

First performance at Leningrad Maly Operny on 24 January 1934

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Russian libretto - German translation - Spanish translation

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An attack on the music and subject matter of the opera in the Soviet Union's government journal Pravda meant that this work was Shostakovich's last opera.

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