The comedian, actor and keen amateur musician Nick Mohammed explores how British audiences responded to the music of the Russian composer Shostakovich during his lifetime. Show more The comedian, ...
On the evening of January 26, 1936, Joseph Stalin and several other Soviet leaders went to the Bolshoi Theatre, in Moscow, to see a performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “Lady Macbeth of the ...
Shostakovich has been as misunderstood as his great opera was. It’s time to stop viewing both the man and his works through the lens of Stalinism Dmitri Shostakovich probably had a bad feeling already ...
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