In order to make sure I had this out to my readers on time, I cheated and lifted the blurb from the Bayerische Staatsoper website.
Here is the link for the webcast.
Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth
Francesco Maria Piave after William Shakespeare
Directed by Martin Kušej
In honeyed tones,
Lord and Lady Macbeth reveal their passionate and bizarre emotions to us. But
behind this beauty there lurks an abyss, which Verdi unveils with one of the
cruelest dramas in the history of world literature. In their struggle to seize
power and retain it once it has been usurped, Macbeth and his lady commit one
murder after another. The unwavering nature of their desire imbues their love
with a radicality that would have been unthinkable on the operatic stage before
this work. “The subject matter of this opera is neither political nor
religious: it is fantastic,” wrote Verdi and brought Shakespeare’s play closer
to a more “romantic” reading. In actual fact, the witches, ghosts and
apparitions, the eerie elements, which dominate the musical and dramatic flow,
in short the whole world of this opera can be regarded as an outward image of
its protagonists’ inner state.
Conductor Massimo Zanetti
Stage Director Martin Kušej
Set Martin Zehetgruber
Costumes Werner Fritz
Lighting Reinhard Traub
Chor Sören Eckhoff
Dramaturgy Sebastian Huber
Olaf A. Schmitt.
Macbeth Zeljko Lucic
Banco Goran Jurić
Lady Macbeth Nadja Michael
Dama di Lady Macbeth Evgeniya Sotnikova
Macduff Wookyung Kim
Malcolm Emanuele D'Aguanno
Arzt Christoph Stephinger
Diener/Mörder Andrea Borghini
Erscheinung 1 Rafał Pawnuk
Erscheinung 2 Iulia Maria Dan
Erscheinung 3 Tölzer Knabenchor
The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera
Set Martin Zehetgruber
Costumes Werner Fritz
Lighting Reinhard Traub
Chor Sören Eckhoff
Dramaturgy Sebastian Huber
Olaf A. Schmitt.
Macbeth Zeljko Lucic
Banco Goran Jurić
Lady Macbeth Nadja Michael
Dama di Lady Macbeth Evgeniya Sotnikova
Macduff Wookyung Kim
Malcolm Emanuele D'Aguanno
Arzt Christoph Stephinger
Diener/Mörder Andrea Borghini
Erscheinung 1 Rafał Pawnuk
Erscheinung 2 Iulia Maria Dan
Erscheinung 3 Tölzer Knabenchor
The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera
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