Macbeth by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by Martin Kušej, Conductor Andrea Battistoni, Fabio Luisi, Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany

Macbeth and his lady reveal their passionate and uncanny feelings to us in the most beautiful tones. But behind this beauty lies an abyss that Verdi reveals with one of the cruelest dramas in world literature. In order to gain power and to preserve it once it has been achieved, Macbeth and his lady commit murder after murder. The unconditional nature of her desire gives her love a radicalism that was unthinkable in opera up until then. “The subject of the opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic,” wrote Verdi, thus bringing Shakespeare's original closer to a “romantic” reading. And in fact, witches, ghosts and apparitions, the uncanny that dominates the singing and the scenic processes, and consequently the whole world of this opera, can be