Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
As an student of Russian language and culture, Hughes also closely collaborated with Valery Gergiev during the time of the Met's association with the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg in productions of Tchaikovsky’s "Pique Dame", "Eugene Onegin", and "Mazeppa"; Shostakovich’s "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District"; and Prokofiev’s "War and Peace".