Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, December 2014, Svetlana Sozdateleva as Katerina L'vovna Izmailova, Director Dmitry Bertman, Helikon Opera Moscow. Photo: Lorenzo Gaudenzi. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra provide a quick intro to the work that led to the denunciation of Dmitri Shostakovich’s music by the Communist authorities and which was banned in the Soviet... Read More