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SHOSTAKOVICH AND LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK

Monday, November 10th, 2014

By James Conlon   On the occasion of the opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Dimitri Shostakovich’s opera, I have revisited an article that I wrote for Opera News in 1994 at the time I conducted the opera in its first presentation at the Met. I have expanded and re-written a great deal of […]

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