Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich

05/10/2024
18:00h
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Performers

Alexei Botnarciuc, Boris Ismailov

Daniel Kirch, Zinovi Ismailov

Ángeles Blancas, Katerina Ismailova

Alex Ollé, stage director

Liceu Opera Orchestra

Josep Pons, conductor

Repertory

Dmitri Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

In Àlex Ollé’s new production, Katerina, imprisoned in her bedroom, represents the ideal of a woman turned into a metaphor for an unattainable future of someone who is supposed to give life, but ends up being the source of death. A woman subjected to the traditional patriarchal system and trapped in an immutable family structure with female sexuality reduced to childbearing. We are talking, then, of an erotic rebellion as the first step in the search for a dream: individual freedom against the tyranny of the family.