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
All Dates
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Casts
Conductor
Massimo Zanetti 29. July 2013
Paolo Carignani 27. June, 1. July 2014
Stage Director
Martin Kušej
Set
Martin Zehetgruber
Costumes
Werner Fritz
Lighting
Reinhard Traub
Chor
Sören Eckhoff
Dramaturgy
Sebastian Huber 29. July 2013, 27. June, 1. July 2014
Olaf A. Schmitt. 29. July 2013, 27. June, 1. July 2014
Macbeth
Zeljko Lucic 29. July 2013
Simon Keenlyside 27. June, 1. July 2014
Banco
Dmitry Belosselskiy 29. July 2013
Ildar Abdrazakov 27. June, 1. July 2014
Lady Macbeth
Nadja Michael 29. July 2013
Anna Netrebko 27. June, 1. July 2014
Dama di Lady Macbeth
Golda Schultz 29. July 2013
Iulia Maria Dan 27. June, 1. July 2014
Macduff
Wookyung Kim 29. July 2013
Joseph Calleja 27. June, 1. July 2014
Malcolm
Emanuele D'Aguanno 29. July 2013
Dean Power 27. June, 1. July 2014
Arzt
Christoph Stephinger
Diener / Mörder
Andrea Borghini
Erscheinung 1
Rafał Pawnuk
Erscheinung 2
Iulia Maria Dan
Erscheinung 3
Tölzer Knabenchor
The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera
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