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  title info:
    title: Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
  name:
    name part: Fairclough, Pauline
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "Shostakovich's lurid opera of sex and violence, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, is famous for being banned by personal decree of Joseph Stalin in 1936. Dramatically revived by Shostakovich's close friend, the cellist and Soviet émigré Mstislav Rostropovich, in 1979, Lady Macbeth is now an international hit. In the first-ever study of this beloved but still controversial opera, this book asks whether audiences have become so distracted by its traumatic reception history that they overlook what is truly shocking about it: namely, Lady Macbeth's frank portrayal of sexual violence against women. Arguing that Shostakovich himself vacillated over how consensual its central sex scene should be, the book grounds the opera's presentation of women, sexuality, and sexual violence in both real-life events and the culture of early Soviet Russia"--
  abstract: In this 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 from the very first productions of the opera in 1934, Fairclough shows how Lady Macbeth was understood by contemporary Soviet audiences and how its shocking portrayal of sexual violence against women was rooted in the culture and everyday reality of early Soviet society.
  table of contents: An opera out of time? -- From “pornophony” to masterpiece : how the West was won -- Staging sex in the 1930s : what the libretto tells us -- Sex, society, and Soviet femininity -- Postlude : Lady Macbeth today.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Pauline Fairclough.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich
      name part: 1906-1975
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Opera
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: URSS
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: MUSIC
  subject:
    topic: Opera
  subject:
    topic: Genres & Styles
  subject:
    topic: Individual Composer & Musician
  subject:
    topic: Opera
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: Music
  subject:
    topic: Music
  classification: ML410.S53 F3 2025
  classification: 784.2092
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    title info:
      title: Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
    name:
      name part: Fairclough, Pauline, 1970-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1519663964
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250617
    record change date: 20260319210322.7
    record identifier: in00005728485
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng