Performances of Ruth Knight at BBC Music

Mon 1 Sep 2025

• 18:30

  Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’

  Royal Albert Hall

  A chance to hear Shostakovich’s blistering operatic tragedy with Amanda Majeski starring as Katerina and Nicky Spence as her lover Sergey

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  A chance to hear Shostakovich’s blistering operatic tragedy with Amanda Majeski starring as Katerina and Nicky Spence as her lover Sergey

  Programme

  • • • Dmitry Shostakovich
      • The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District(160 mins)(semi-staged; sung in English with English surtitles)

  Performers

  • Amanda Majeski

    Katerina
    Katerina
  • Brindley Sherratt

    Boris/Ghost of Boris
    Boris/Ghost of Boris
  • John Findon

    Zinovy
    Zinovy
  • Thomas Mole

    Mill-hand/Priest
    Mill-hand/Priest
  • Nicky Spence

    Sergey
    Sergey
  • Ava Dodd

    Aksinya/Convict
    Aksinya/Convict
  • Ronald Samm

    Shabby Peasant
    Shabby Peasant
  • Alaric Green

    Steward
    Steward
  • Chuma Sijeqa

    Police Sergeant
    Police Sergeant
  • William Morgan

    Teacher
    Teacher
  • Sir Willard White

    Old Convict
    Old Convict
  • Niamh O'Sullivan

    Sonyetka
    Sonyetka
  • BBC Singers
  • Chorus of English National Opera
  • BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Brass Section of the Orchestra of English National Opera
  • John Storgårds

    conductor
    conductor
  • Ruth Knight

    director
    director

  Composers

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

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  Part of

  Proms 2025