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When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth

Night at the Opera

Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, was a hit in Russia until the night Stalin walked out on a Bolshoi performance. Then things soured in a hurry.

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