Shostakovich Festival in Leipzig: Listen! With Open Ears! Right Now!

So much Shostakovich was never: Andris Nelsons completed a musical marathon in Leipzig to celebrate perhaps the greatest composer of the 20th century. Almost everything that Shostakovich made up is performed. A report from the eye of the sound organ.

On the occasion of the Shostakovich Festival in Leipzig, the opera presented its resumption of the "Lady Macbeth in Mzensk" on Sunday. The opera in festival composition was convincing, says our opera critic.