Katerina Izmailova

Overview

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994.

Cast

Galina Vishnevskaya

Katerina Izmailova

Artyom Inozemtsev

Sergey

Nikolai Boyarsky

Zinoviy Borisovich

Aleksandr Sokolov

Boris Timofeyevich

Roman Tkachuk

Village Drunk

Tatyana Gavrilova

Sonetka

Vera Titova

Lyubov Malinovskaya

Konstantin Adashevsky

Priest

Igor Bogolyubov

Konstantin Tyagunov

Vladimir Kochurikhin