The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has announced Shostakovich 5 & Festive, a concert featuring the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Keitaro Harada. The performances will ...

Shostakovich lived under constant threat. One wrong note could end his career — or his life. His music carried hidden resistance while his public role showed compliance. This is the cost of creating ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. La Scala opened its season with Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtensk,” a Russian opera censored by Stalin. Peace ...

Shostakovich opera opens 2025-26 season in Milan Opening performance sold out, tickets costing up to 3,200 euros Director says politics and culture should be kept separate MILAN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - La ...

It was 100 years ago that Dmitri Shostakovich, as a young music student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, completed his First Symphony. He finished the work in April 1925, and did not turn 19 years ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid the 50th anniversary of ...

At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 ...

Rafael Payare conducts the symphony. Photo courtesy San Diego Symphony There’s no mystery why Mahler and Shostakovich both happened to write ambitiously massive symphonies — in length, orchestral size ...

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Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich — didn’t mesh with ...

One of the composer’s most perplexing creations, performed with works by Stravinsky and Vrebalov, is rendered with uncommon depth and power. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris ...

When there’s a final reckoning of Andris Nelsons’ tenure as artistic head of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his performances and recordings of Dmitri Shostakovich's music will certainly ride high on ...