Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Classical | DVD | NTSC 16:9 | covers | DVD´s FULL No compression | 12.53 Gb (2 DVD9) | 3% Recovery
Audio: PCM Stereo | 170 min | Relesase: 2009 | Label: ArtHaus
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
It's been nearly three years since the Canadian Opera Company's gut-wrenchingly satisfying production of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Since the work isn't produced often, any opportunity to see it on DVD is worth checking out. This 2008 production from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence doesn't disappoint.
American conductor James Conlon brings out every nuance in Shostakovich's score, which beautifully underlines the drama unleashed by a solid cast led by dramatic-voiced Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet as Katerina, a bourgeois woman who takes up with another man while her husband is away.
Think of this long, four-act opera as Desperate Housewives set in a late-19th-century Russian backwater: Bored housewife meets handsome drifter, she kills her husband, the adulterers are sent to a prison camp, Katerina sees her new husband eyeing another woman and pushes the woman into the Volga river before throwing herself in, too.
It's not light entertainment, but there's a lot to savour in a fine production. Director Lev Dodin and designer David Borovsky have kept it simple, if exceedingly drab, focusing everything on the main characters. If there is one flaw, it's a lack of electricity between Charbonnet and tenor Sergei Kunaev, who plays her lover. There are no extras in this two-DVD set.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Actors: Jeanne Michèle Charbonnet, Vladimir Vaneev, Vsevolod Grivnov, James Conlon, Sergej Kunaev
Directors: Lev Dodin
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