Insights into The Royal Opera's Macbeth
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Explore Verdi's Macbeth with The Royal Opera, including insights from conductor Antonio Pappano and cast members Željko Lučić (Macbeth), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Banquo). Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/...
Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist Francesco Maria Piave Verdi set out to create ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their success is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy.
Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 production for The Royal Opera is richly hued, shot through with black, red and gold. The witches - imagined by designer Anthony Ward as strange, scarlet-turbaned creatures - are ever-present agents of fate. Lloyd depicts the Macbeths’ childlessness as the dark sadness lurking behind their terrible deeds. The Royal Opera’s production uses Verdi’s 1865 Paris revision of the opera, which includes Lady Macbeth’s riveting aria ‘La luce langue’.
Antoni Pappano is such an inspiring musician. Such a fabulous presentation. I heard the broadcast of the full opera today on WQXR FM from New York, and was completely captivated.
Antonio Pappano makes me so excited about opera!
Pappano is great, and I love his enthusiasm but his downside is that the kind of verbalising and grunting you hear from him in his conducting here is also what he does in live performances in the pit. If you sit too close to the orchestra you can can really hear him making a lot of noise and it's distracting (as well as a bit off for the players, I would think). It seems to be a trend. At Covent Garden this week in a performance of this opera the conductor did the same thing -- singing along, grunting, verbalising etc. Maybe someone can have a word with the conductors to keep it quiet, because Verdi did not score parts for them. :-)
Its strange how opera makes me feel, as if my soul melts and become one with the song. The desire to be able to sing just one time getting stronger each day and it hurts in a way that i cant understand. Im totally from deferent culture deferent society deferent continent but still i feel that i love it more than everybody els .💔
Thank you for sharing, fabulous production i have seen this month through cinema. Love it!
Macbeth is Verdi's best early opera. To be honest I consider Il Trovatore to really be an early style Verdi opera although
classified as middle period. And again in my opinion Macbeth is superior to Il Trovatore, In fact I will go further. As with
Otello I consider Verdi's early masterpiece to be superior to the Shakespeare original. The ensemble at the end of the
second act is up there with some of his finest innovations.
Dan Dooner & Kirsty Tapp dressed in red & black in tune with the production's design!
Who is this marvelous soprano?
The lady covering Lady Macbeth, is superb.
Who is she? I detect something Slavic about her..........
Her name is Anna Smirnova, she is Russian :)
Thank you
"You and your ladies" !!! Really?
agreed - goes to show how hostile the working environment can be in theatres. especially after MeToo, he should know better. Very disappointing.
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