So damn bored
It’s nasty world, Shostakovich seems to say, where life alternates between boring and terrifying.
13 pieces since 2006 — at 3 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
3 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Graham Vick.
View allIt’s nasty world, Shostakovich seems to say, where life alternates between boring and terrifying.
My memory is fading but the events I recall most vividly of the last season seem largely to have been concert performances.
Throw in a trio of murders and a healthy splash of vodka and you have, more or less, the plot of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
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