Study Guide
Study Guide Contents
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Beginner's Guide to Opera
- Who's Who At the Opera
- The Lyric Opera House
- BOC Education Programs
- A Bibliography of Selected Readings
- Education Resources
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PREVIOUS OPERAS
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Opera in four acts
Music - Dmitri Shostakovich
Libretto - Dmitri Shostakovichand Alexander Preis
Based on a short story by Nikolai Leskov
First performed on
January 22, 1934, Leningrad, USSR
Principal characters:
KATERINA L'VOVNA IZMAYLOVA (Kah-teh-ree-nah Lyeah-vohv-nah Eez-maee-loh-va) Wife of Zinovy Borisovich soprano
BORIS TIMOFEYEVICH IZMAYKOV (Bah-reess Tee-mah-fyeh-veech Eez-maee-lohv) A merchant bass
ZINOVY BORISOVICH IZMAYLOV (Zee-nah-vee Bah-ree-soh-veech Eez-maee-lohv) Boris’ son, a merchant tenor
SERGEY (Syehr-gyeh) A laborer tenor
AKSINYA (Ahk-seen-yah) cook employed by the Izmaylovs soprano
SONYETKA (Sahn-yeht-kah) A convict contralto
SHABBY PEASANT character tenor
PRIEST basso profundo
CHIEF OF POLICE baritone
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is set in the Mtsensk District in Russia in the 19th Century