Shostakovich was just 24 when he began writing Lady Macbeth von Mtsensk, and something in the young Russian’s biting satire clearly strikes a chord for the inveterately iconoclastic Australian Kosky.

Witches prophesy that Macbeth will become King of Scotland. Not he, but Banquo, will however be the progenitor of future kings. Driven by the relentless greed for power of wife, murdering the king and ...

James Gaffigan has renewed his contract with Komische Oper Berlin, extending his role as General Music Director through the ...