Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Tickets

See it if Keeps your interest the whole time, really well done. The sets are spectacular.

Don’t see it if Dont like dark stories, is a bit raunchy with some nudity.

See it if You want inventive staging on a mammoth scale. You want to discover a fully beautiful score. You want to discover an unknown opera.

Don’t see it if You want traditional grand opera. You don’t like political satire in place of emotion. You don’t want to see offensive staging.

See it if you want to see a powerhouse performance by Svetlana Sozdateleva in the opera that got Shostakovich denounced and led to his 5th Symphony

Don’t see it if you don’t care for Russian or Grand opera, dislike simulated sex scenes, prefer comedies or at least likable characters