Name: Macbeth
Start: 2024-11-21
End: 2024-11-21
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Washington National Opera

Baritone

Etienne Dupuis

Macbeth

Soprano

Ewa Płonka

Lady Macbeth

Tenor

Kang Wang

Macduff

Soloman Howard

Banquo

Conductor

Evan Rogister

Set designer

Erhard Rom

Lighting designer

A.J. Guban

Stage director

Brenna Corner

Orchestra

The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

Italian

Washington D.C.

United States

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Opera House

Macbeth: Macbeth Verdi

Public

Sushant Karmakar

English

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Power’s price, paid in blood.
Massive ensembles. White hot arias. The dark recesses of the mind. Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s smoldering tragedy is a riveting exploration of power, corruption, and freedom. Fresh off the success of Romeo and Juliet in our 2023–2024 season, Washington National Opera brings the Bard’s historical epic back for the first time in 17 years.

Meet opera’s most power-hungry couple: Macbeth and his Lady. When they’re caught in a murderous plot to claim the Scottish throne, their manic greed for control has no end. Verdi wrote this powerhouse during Italy’s independence movement, and it soars with themes of political corruption, tyrannical rule, and liberation of the people.

Macbeth takes audiences through a gripping tale of ambition and scandal, from the first note to the spectacular closing chorus. As the chilling finale approaches, ghosts of the past lurk in the shadows. Power unchecked comes at a cost; what can stop its bloody path of destruction?

Macbeth by Verdi, Thu 21 Nov 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Brenna Corner,, Conductor Evan Rogister, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., United States

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