Organization

Münchner Opernfestspiele

Singer

Baritone

Ludovic Tézier

Macbeth

Artur Rucinski

Soprano

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Lady Macbeth

Bass

Tareq Nazmi

Banquo

Vitalij Kowaljow

Tenor

Freddie De Tommaso

Macduff

Evan LeRoy Johnson

Armando Elizondo

Malcolm

Mezzo-soprano

Mirjam Mesak

Lady-in-waiting

Martin Snell

Doctor

Christian Rieger

Assassin

A Servant of Macbeth

Andrew Hamilton

First Apparition

Jasmin Delfs

Second Apparition

Stage director

Martin Kušej

Conductor

Andrea Battistoni

Fabio Luisi

Lighting designer

Reinhard Traub

Costume designer

Werner Fritz

Set designer

Martin Zehetgruber

Dramaturge

Sebastian Huber

Olaf A Schmitt

Chorus master

Stellario Fagone

Bayerische Staatsoper

Italian

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

Macbeth Verdi

Public

German

English

Approved

MACBETH: Ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera

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

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

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