Organization

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Bertrand de Billy

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Harry Kupfer

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Hans Schavernoch

Costume designer

Yan Tax

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Olaf Freese

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Thomas Reimer

Baritone (+2)

Luca Salsi

Macbeth

Bass (+3)

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Banquo

Soprano (+5)

Anna Netrebko

Lady Macbeth

Soprano (+2)

Evelin Novak

Lady-in-waiting

Tenor (+1)

Fabio Sartori

Macduff

Tenor (+3)

Andrés Moreno García

Malcolm

Bass (+2)

Friedrich Hamel

Doctor

Baritone (+3)

Dionysios Avgerinos

Assassin

Third Apparition

Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( State Opera Berlin )

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Chorus

Staatsopernchor Berlin

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

After winning in battle, Commander Macbeth receives a prophesy that he will one day become King of Scotland. Influenced by the whisperings of his wife, he literally stops at nothing to fulfil the prophesy. But racked by guilt, the Macbeths soon sink into delusions and become victims of their own thirst for power.


In order to stay as faithful as possible to the admired Shakespearean play, Giuseppe Verdi’s »Macbeth« shattered the operatic conventions of the time and created one of his darkest and most starkly disturbing works. Monumental choral scenes, echoing the rebellion and disillusionment of the dominated, oppressed and persecuted, demonstrate the social consequences of tyranny and despotism. These contrast with highly expressive arias and duets, in which Verdi transcends the emotional abysses of the power-obsessed protagonists. To express the many-layered motifs and emotions of his characters as diversely as possible, Verdi demanded unprecedented levels of performance from his actors: to enhance the dramatic effect, the vocal parts – instead of shining with virtuoso brilliance – are designed to emphasise aspects of language and acting and are mercilessly subjugated to the specific psychological state of the figures. He thus took a decisive step away from the ideal of the bel canto towards distinctive musical-dramatic veracity.

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Berlin

Germany

Macbeth Verdi

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Spielzeit 2017/18 | Melodramma in vier AktenMusik by Giuseppe VerdiText by Francesco Maria Piave additions by Andrea Maffei according to »The Tragedy of Macb...

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