Rape and Resistance in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Understanding Dmitri Shostakovich’s Katarina Lvovna as a Viable and Complex Character
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Clément, Catherine. Opera, or the Undoing of Women. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Emerson, Caryl. “Back to the Future: Shostakovich’s Revision of Leskov’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District.” Cambridge Opera Journal 1 (1989): 59-78.
———. All the Same the Words Don’t Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Fairclough, Pauline. “Facts, Fantasies and Fictions: Recent Shostakovich Studies.” Music & Letters 86 (2005): 452-460.
Greenberg, Robert. Great Masters: Shostakovich – his Life and Music. Great Courses. 2002. Lecture 1: “Let the Controversy Begin,” Lecture 3: “Lady Macbeth” Digital audiobook.
Leskov, Nikolai. “The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District.” In The Sentry, and Other Stories, translated by A. E. Chamot, 49-140. Wesport: Hyperion Press, 1922.
Morgan, James. “Shostakovich the Dramatist: The Nose and the Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.” In A Shostakovich Companion, edited by Michael Mishra, 313-340. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2008.
Shostakovich, Dmitri and Alexander Preis. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Translated by Edward Downes. New York: G Schirmer, 1983.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Taruskin, Richard. “The Opera and the Dictator: the peculiar Martyrdom of Dmitri Shostakovich.” The New Republic 200 (1989): 34-40.
———. Defining Russia musically: historical and hermeneutical essays. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997.
———. On Russian Music. Oakland: University of California Press, 2008.
Wells, Elizabeth. “‘The New Woman’: Lady Macbeth and Sexual Politics in the Stalinist Era.” Cambridge Opera Journal 13 (2001): 163-189.
Sound Recordings
Shostakovich, Dimitri. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Christophe Ventris, and Vladimir Vaneev. East Sussex: Opus Arte, 2006. DVD.
———. Lady Macbeth of Mstensk. With Galina Vishnevskaya, Nicolai Gedda, and Dimiter Petkov. England: EMI Classics, 2002. Compact Disc.
Emerson, Caryl. “Back to the Future: Shostakovich’s Revision of Leskov’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District.” Cambridge Opera Journal 1 (1989): 59-78.
———. All the Same the Words Don’t Go Away: Essays on Authors, Heroes, Aesthetics, and Stage Adaptations from the Russian Tradition. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Fairclough, Pauline. “Facts, Fantasies and Fictions: Recent Shostakovich Studies.” Music & Letters 86 (2005): 452-460.
Greenberg, Robert. Great Masters: Shostakovich – his Life and Music. Great Courses. 2002. Lecture 1: “Let the Controversy Begin,” Lecture 3: “Lady Macbeth” Digital audiobook.
Leskov, Nikolai. “The Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District.” In The Sentry, and Other Stories, translated by A. E. Chamot, 49-140. Wesport: Hyperion Press, 1922.
Morgan, James. “Shostakovich the Dramatist: The Nose and the Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.” In A Shostakovich Companion, edited by Michael Mishra, 313-340. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2008.
Shostakovich, Dmitri and Alexander Preis. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Translated by Edward Downes. New York: G Schirmer, 1983.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Taruskin, Richard. “The Opera and the Dictator: the peculiar Martyrdom of Dmitri Shostakovich.” The New Republic 200 (1989): 34-40.
———. Defining Russia musically: historical and hermeneutical essays. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997.
———. On Russian Music. Oakland: University of California Press, 2008.
Wells, Elizabeth. “‘The New Woman’: Lady Macbeth and Sexual Politics in the Stalinist Era.” Cambridge Opera Journal 13 (2001): 163-189.
Sound Recordings
Shostakovich, Dimitri. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Christophe Ventris, and Vladimir Vaneev. East Sussex: Opus Arte, 2006. DVD.
———. Lady Macbeth of Mstensk. With Galina Vishnevskaya, Nicolai Gedda, and Dimiter Petkov. England: EMI Classics, 2002. Compact Disc.