Walking the tightrope with Stalin
Angelina Nikonova directs Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Hamburg (****½)
Author : Jos Hermans
Just last month, polemicist Norman Lebrecht recalled that Dmitri Shostakovich's children, Maksim and Galina, had written an introduction to the Russian edition of Solomon Volkov's book "Shostakovich and Stalin" in 2006. The final paragraph reads as follows: “We,…
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