Deutsche Oper Berlin
Macbeth
Opera
Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin
Giuseppe Verdi
© Stan Hema
Description
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei
based on a tragedy by William Shakespeare
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.
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei
based on a tragedy by William Shakespeare
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.
Cast
Enrique Mazzola
Conductor
Marie-Ève Signeyrole
Director
Fabien Teigné
Stage design
Yassu
Costume design
Artis Dzerve
Video
Sascha Zauner
Light design
Jeremy Bines
Chorus master
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Chorus
Roman Burdenko
Macbeth
Thomas Lehman
Macbeth
Marko Mimica
Banco
Byung Gil Kim
Banco
Anastasia Bartoli
Lady Macbeth
Felicia Moore
Lady Macbeth
Nina Solodovnikova
chambermaid of Lady Macbeth
Attilio Glaser
Macduff
Andrei Danilov
Macduff
Thomas Cilluffo
Malcolm
Kangyoon Shine Lee
Malcolm
Stephen Marsh
Macbeth's servant
Gerard Farreras
A doctor
Youngkwang Oh
A doctor
Jared Werlein
An assassin
Dean Murphy
A Messenger
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orcheste
Dates
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin
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