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Burke, Kenneth | February 20, 1935 issue

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While witnessing the lively performance of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich's opera, "Lady Macbeth of Mzensk," no one could deny that they were witnessing sights and sounds of a highly intelligent order. The singers were fluent with a spontaneous coordination of voice and movement that could arise only from a firm belief in their roles. "Madame Bovary," this work is as topical as the name, and in much the same manner. The customary complaints about the intrusion of propaganda into art, and the unfeasibility of same, it might be relevant to remember that the French master of "pure art" Gustave Flaubert wrote books practically all of which were redoubted at the time of their appearance for their sharp political implications.

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LADY Macbeth of Mzensk (Theatrical production); MADAME Bovary (Theatrical production); SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitrii Dmitrievich, 1906-1975; FLAUBERT, Gustave, 1821-1880; OPERA; DRAMATIC music; THEATERS
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