Royal Opera House: Macbeth

May 16, 2018

3h 25m

★ 8.0

Something wicked this way comes.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Music

Royal Opera House: Macbeth Trailers

Cast

Macbeth, Thane of Glamis

Željko Lučić

Banquo, Thane of Lochaber

Ildebrando d'Arcangelo

Lady Macbeth

Anna Netrebko

Lady-In-Waiting

Francesca Chiejina

Servant to Macbeth

Jonathan Fisher

Duncan, King of Scotland

John O'Toole

Malcolm, Son of Duncan

Konu Kim

Macduff, Thane of Fife

Yusif Eyvazov

Fleance, Son of Banquo

Matteo Di Lorenzo

Assassin

Olle Zetterstrom

First Apparition

John Morrissey

Second Apparition

Gaius Davey Bartlett

Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare’s most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth that he will become King of Scotland, he plots with his wife to attain the title through an assassination; a bloody act that gives him his crown and sends him careening down the path of his own undoing.

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