Dimitri Shostakovich's opera, Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk, is available free through August 14 at OperaVision. The Birmingham Opera Company production, recorded in March 2019, moves the setting to a nightclub.
Here's the blurb from the website: "Birmingham Opera Company's 50th production relocates Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk to a disused, iconic nightclub where, amidst the 150 volunteer actors and chorus, audience members encountered bloody brides, oversized rats and poisoned wedding guests. Accompanied on stage by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and a band from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and with a radical set design by the Banksy collaborators Block 9, ‘the production is perhaps its most brilliant so far’ (The Observer)."
That sounds fun. - EW
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