On September 14, Kristine Opolais returns to one of her signature roles, the title role in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at the Enescu Festival. It tells the story of Katerina, a lonely woman in 19th-century Russia, who falls in love with one of her husband’s workers and is driven to murder.

The main cast also includes Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Vincent Wolfsteiner, Pavel Černoch, Maria Barakova and Michelle Trainor. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts.