Name: Macbeth Underworld
Start: 2019-09-26
End: 2019-09-26
Location: La Monnaie

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Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Magdalena Kožená

Lady Macbeth

Sophie Marilley

Baritone

Georg Nigl

Macbeth

Soprano

Ekaterina Lekhina

Weird Sister 1

Lilly Jørstad

Weird Sister 2

Christel Loetzsch

Weird Sister 3

Bass

Kristinn Sigmundsson

Ghost

Tenor

Graham Clark

Porter

Conductor

Alain Altinoglu

Stage director

Thomas Jolly

Set designer

Bruno de Lavenère

Costume designer

Sylvette Dequest

Lighting designer

Antoine Travert

Chorus master

Martino Faggiani

Alberto Moro

Dramaturge

Katja Krüger

La Monnaie/De Munt

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Macbeth Underworld

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La Monnaie

Grande Salle

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Macbeth Underworld Dusapin

The dreaded Thane of Glamis rises, with his dark fairy queen by his side: ‘Macbeth 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥' premieres tonight! Embrace the darkness, until Octob...

Barely four years after Penthesilea , his previous creation, Pascal Dusapin is delivering a new opera, in response to a commission from La Monnaie. With his librettist Frédéric Boyer, he plunges into the darkest regions of the human soul with the help of two characters among the most emblematic of evil in Man: the Macbeth couple. Thomas Jolly, the young French prodigy of the Shakespearian repertoire, signs the staging while Alain Altinoglu deploys the dramatic intensity as well as the vocal and orchestral richness of the score. A gothic opera where the characters are confronted with their spectral reality which comes back to haunt their memory and ours.

Quatre ans à peine après Penthesilea, sa précédente création, Pascal Dusapin livre un nouvel opéra, en réponse à une commande de la Monnaie. Avec son librettiste Frédéric Boyer, il plonge dans les régions les plus sombres de l’âme humaine à l’aide de deux personnages parmi les plus emblématiques du mal chez l’Homme : le couple Macbeth. Thomas Jolly, le jeune prodige français du répertoire shakespearien, signe la mise en scène tandis qu’Alain Altinoglu déploie l’intensité dramatique ainsi que la richesse vocale et orchestrale de la partition. Un opéra gothique où les personnages sont confrontés à leur réalité spectrale qui revient hanter leur mémoire et la notre.

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Macbeth Underworld by Dusapin, Thu 26 Sep 2019, From (2019/2019), Directed by Thomas Jolly,, Conductor Alain Altinoglu, La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium

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