The black lake is everywhere
Alex Ollé directs Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Barcelona (****½) [live]
What a fantastic opera Lady Macbeth is! You can't help but think : what lyrical masterpieces could we still have expected from the 26-year-old composer with the Harry Potter spectacles and all his swagger if the Stalinist cultural bureaucracy had not broken his backbone. Lady Macbeth was designed entire…
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