Macbeth

Oper in vier Akten

Mit Macbeth vertonte Verdi 1847 erstmals ein Drama Shakespeares. Obwohl er sich sein ganzes Leben lang mit ihm beschäftigte, widmete er sich erst in hohem Alter weiteren Dramen des englischen Nationaldichters.

Macbeth – Stan Hema

Conductor: Enrique Mazzola; Staging: Marie-Ève Signeyrole; With Roman Burdenko / Thomas Lehman, Marko Mimica / Byung Gil Kim, Anastasia Bartoli / Felicia Moore, Attilio Glaser / Andrei Danilov and others.

About the work

Macbeth was the first of Shakespeare’s plays to be set to music by Verdi, in 1847. Despite his decades of interest in the English playwright, he did not adapt another work of Shakespeare’s until late in his career. Verdi’s operatic rendition of this tale of murky prophecies and bloody struggles for the throne of Scotland came in the hugely productive decade that Verdi himself came to refer to as his »galley slave years«. Still striving for critical recognition, he turned out a string of operas that expanded on the bel canto genre. Macbeth was part of an evolution in Italian opera, a development that was even more evident in the modified version released in 1865. In typical fashion Verdi roughened up the storyline and injected some emotional twists and turns, intensifying the drama in the process and creating a tense momentum that sends the protagonists hurtling towards their respective gruesome ends.

About the production

Following on from her triumphs with Baby Doll and Negar in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and her recent productions at the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Semperoper Dresden, the MusikTheater an der Wien and La Monnaie in Brüssel, Marie-Ève Signeyrole returns to the venue on Bismarckstrasse for her first staging of a new production on the main stage. Verdi’s hard-hitting Shakespearean tragedy provides the perfect material for the arresting visuals that are a hallmark of the French director, whose aesthetic vision can hold its own with any modern cinematic blockbuster.

Artists/Collaborators: Enrique Mazzola (Musikalische Leitung), Marie-Ève Signeyrole (Inszenierung), Fabien Teigné (Bühne), Yashi (Kostüme), Artis Dzerve (Video), Sascha Zauner (Licht), Jeremy Bines (Chöre), Roman Burdenko (Macbeth), Marko Mimica (Banco), Anastasia Bartoli (Lady Macbeth), Nina Solodovnikova (Kammerfrau der Lady Macbeth), Attilio Glaser (Macduff), Thomas Cilluffo (Malcolm), Stephen Marsh (Diener Macbeths), Gerard Farreras (Ein Arzt), Jared Werlein (Ein Mörder), Dean Murphy (Ein Herold), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)

Runtime: Sat, 23/11/2024 to Sat, 25/01/2025

Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the Rank foyer on the right

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 23/November/2024 18:00 (7 more dates)
• Venue Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Address Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg
• Price from €43.10

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