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Ledy Macbeth Mtsenskovo uyezda (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District) ![]() | |
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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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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