Macbeth

Giuseppe Verdi
Francesco Maria Piave after William Shakespeare

In honeyed tones, Lord and Lady Macbeth reveal their passionate and bizarre emotions to us. But behind this beauty there lurks an abyss, which Verdi unveils with one of the cruelest dramas in the history of world literature. In their struggle to seize power and retain it once it has been usurped, Macbeth and his lady commit one murder after another. The unwavering nature of their desire imbues their love with a radicality that would have been unthinkable on the operatic stage before this work. “The subject matter of this opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic,” wrote Verdi and brought Shakespeare’s play closer to a more “romantic” reading. In actual fact, the witches, ghosts and apparitions, the eerie elements, which dominate the musical and dramatic flow, in short the whole world of this opera can be regarded as an outward image of its protagonists’ inner state.

In Italian with German surtitles

 

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Casts

Conductor Teodor Currentzis   
Stage Director Martin Kušej   
Set Martin Zehetgruber   
Costumes Werner Fritz   
Lighting Reinhard Traub   
Chor Sören Eckhoff   
Dramaturgy Sebastian Huber 
Olaf A. Schmitt. 

Macbeth Franco Vassallo   
Banco Christof Fischesser   
Lady Macbeth Tatiana Serjan   
Dama di Lady Macbeth Evgeniya Sotnikova   
Macduff Francesco Demuro   
Malcolm Fabrizio Mercurio   
Arzt Christoph Stephinger   
Diener Rüdiger Trebes   
Mörder Christian Rieger   
Erscheinung 1 Tareq Nazmi   
Erscheinung 2 Iulia Maria Dan   
Erscheinung 3 Tölzer Knabenchor   

The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera