Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
opera by Dmity Shostakovich / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда) is an opera by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It is one of the most important Russian operas of the 20th century. The words for the opera (the “libretto”) were written by Alexander Preis who based them on a story by the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov. The opera has nothing to do with Shakespeare’s play Macbeth except for the fact that it is about a woman like Lady Macbeth who is tempted to commit a murder.