2006: Shostakovich Lady Macbeth, Tomlinson, Ventris

Dmitry Shostakovich
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

John Tomlinson (Boris Ismailov)
John Daszak (Zinovy Ismailov)
Eva-Maria Westbroek (Katerina Ismailov)
Christopher Ventris (Sergey)
Carole Wilson (Aksinya)
Peter Bronder (Drunken Guest)
Krzysztof Szumanski (Steward/Sentry)
Andrew Sritheran (Second Workman/Coachman)
Maxim Mikhailov (Priest)
Roderick Earle (Police Inspector)
Nikola Matisic (Teacher)
Gwynne Howell (Old Convict)
Christine Rice (Sonyetka)
Miriam Murphy (Female Convict)

Conductor:Antonio Pappano
Director: Richard Jones
Design: John Macfarlane
Lighting: Mimi Jordan Sherin
Costumes: Nicky Gillibrand
Choreography: Linda Dobell

Category:

Music

Tags:

• dsch
• william
• shakespeare

[mikabrains]

come to think of it... this scene now seems cribbed from a Graham vick production from the 90s

[straumeeee]

Певица шикарная!!!

[MrCC379]

This must have been the scene that pissed off Stalin.

[LJBSasha]

Most certainly I've no patience with the re-interpretations so many, many of today's directors love to foist upon opera - I hate it all, period!!!! Stick with the composer's intentions and traditional, no-nonsense sets (and costumes!), and that's all!!!!

[LJBSasha]

@IJBLondon: just look up the score, study the sung-text and the (few) stage-directions (and remember that the sex-interlude calls for actual intercourse {even if abbreviated due to the little time the thing takes!}), and then you'll know what I mean!

[IJBLondon]

@LJBSasha

I thought it worked very well. What stage directions are you referring to?

[LJBSasha]

All three trombones first, then just one solo-trombonist.

The stage-director for this show deserves to be shot!! I can't tell you how I HATE the way he's travestying so many of the stage-directions and acting for a vision that just makes no sense relative to what's really happening in the opera!!!

2/5 (saved by the musical performance only from being 1 - and even that would otherwise be too good!)

[peterhndz]

i have to write a paper on this opera

is that ejaculation bit played by a basson, or what?

thanks in advance

[Schell77]

Wow, effective staging with the armoire and a bedroom that looks like a cell. Ventris is getting a paunch as he gets older, but he still owns this role. Thanks for posting this.

[machinic]

they are making out like animals.