Word: mtsensk
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled an ovation for the hard-working Clevelander. But Rodzinski had still louder music: two entr'actes from Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
...Cleveland Orchestra began a real opera season last week with Wagner's Die Walkure, cast with such expert singers as Soprano Dorothee Manski. Tenor Paul Althouse, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Cleveland has five other operas scheduled. Chiefly important is Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Philadelphia is also trying its hand at the Shostakovich opera under Conductor Fritz Reiner...
...serious operagoers the treat next winter will be the revival of Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, probably the season's curtain-raiser. Seekers after the new and curious will have to travel to Cleveland or Philadelphia. In both cities Artur Rodzinski has contracted to conduct Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, the Soviet success by Dmitri Shostakovich, in which the heroine is heckled into murder by her unhealthy bourgeois surroundings. Metropolitan box-holders who own the shabby old theatre below Times Square made additional news last week when they announced plans to mortgage the house for $600,000 in order...