Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Katerina lives unhappily with her husband Zinovy and his father Boris. She begins an affair with Sergei, a worker on the family estate. After Boris catches Sergei leaving Katerina’s room and has him beaten, Katerina poisons Boris. When Zinovy discovers the affair, Katerina and Sergei kill him and hide his body. They marry, but the corpse is found and both are sent to a Siberian prison camp. Sergei pursues another convict, Sonyetka, and tricks Katerina into giving up her stockings for her. After the other convicts mock her, Katerina pushes Sonyetka into an icy river and falls in herself.