Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

In the first detailed study of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Pauline Fairclough offers a radically new interpretation of one of the twentieth century's most popular operas. Banned by Joseph Stalin after he went to see it in early 1936, Lady Macbeth was never heard again in Shostakovich's lifetime. In her examination of original sources fr