Macbeth - Royal Opera House

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Macbeth
Royal Opera House
London, England

Sunday, June 19 @ 2:00
Thursday, June 23 @ 7:00

CAPTURED LIVE at the Royal Opera House on Monday, June 13, 2011

Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by Antonio Pappano
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Starring Simon Keenlyside

Sung in Italian with English subtitles
2 hrs 50 minutes

Verdi’s most evocative music brings Shakespeare’s drama to life on the stage of the Royal Opera House. Macbeth stars British baritone Simon Keenlyside as the titular tormented ruler of Scotland.

Verdi’s lifelong love affair with Shakespeare first took wing with Macbeth in 1847. The composer thought the play ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. Musically, Verdi’s masterstrokes were the macabre choruses for the witches, the evocative orchestral colours and the increased role for the ‘ugly and evil’ Lady Macbeth. Although Verdi later revised the opera in 1865 for Paris, his earlier, more unified version of the opera is used here for this revival of Phyllida Lloyd’s striking staging.

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