cover from film by Peter Weigl, 1992
Please respond in comments to the film or the libretto in the HCC Reader, and you can also consider the Pravda article. Here are some questions to think about:
- Professor Moeller's question is why would Shostakovich think that Lady Macbeth is socialist realism?
- He seems to find that Kusej's film stages "orgasm and murder" as the film's theme, but suggests that he [professor Moeller] would make other choices. How would a different staging communicate a different message?
- PM writes: "Shostakovich intended for Katerina to be a sympathetic character. Do you think she came across as sympathetic in the production video you saw? How would you alter the staging to make her sympathetic?"
