DMITRI ŞOSTAKOVICI – A REPRESENTATIVE OF RUSSIAN NATIONAL MUSIC IN THE 20TH CENTURY - THE OPERA LADY MACBETH FROM MŢENSK, BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY
DMITRI ŞOSTAKOVICI – A REPRESENTATIVE OF RUSSIAN NATIONAL MUSIC IN THE 20TH CENTURY - THE OPERA LADY MACBETH FROM MŢENSK, BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: The opera Lady Macbeth From Mţensk is a musical drama based on the idea of compassion towards woman’s condition in the contemporary society. It could be interpreted, from the subject’s point of view, as a tragic metaphor. Şostakovici considered it a “satiric-tragedy” where he magnifically mixes the tragic, the sarcasm and the grotesque. The emphasis of the material side, of human’s degradation to the level of pure physiology constitutes a parable. The composer stresses exactly the toughest, cruelest moments, the murders, trying to accomplish thus a “metaphoric” analogy between the expressionist artistic elements and the nightmare reality that he and his compatriots were experiencing. The repulsion that some scenes from the second act as well as the final scenes create hints at the cruel reality. The composer finds the most appropriate elements and musical means for keeping up the action and the characters’ descriptions.

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