Macbeth

Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe

Librettist/Text Author: Piave, Francesco Maria

Librettist/Text Author: Maffei, Andrea

Libretto Source: Shakespeare, William

Conductor: Callegari, Daniele

Orchestra: Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus: Coro Lirico Marchigiano 'V. Bellini'

Chorus Master: Crescenzi, David

Banco: Kudinov, Pavel

Il medico: Dall'Amico, Luca

Il sicario: Pistolesi, Andrea

Lady Macbeth: Zhuravel, Olha

Macbeth: Altomare, Giuseppe

Macduff: Pelizzari, Rubens

Malcolm: Voleri, Marco

Un domestico di Macbeth: Corro, William

Set Designer: Pizzi, Pier Luigi

Costume Designer: Pizzi, Pier Luigi

Lighting Designer: Rossi, Sergio

Choreographer: Iancu, Gheorghe

Stage Director: Pizzi, Pier Luigi

Sound Engineer: Trasi, Rino

Television Producer: Dellepiane, Alberto

Television Director: Mancini, Davide

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Date of Production: 05-08-2007

Festival: Sferisterio Opera Festival

Venue: Sferisterio, Macerata

Playing Time: 02:32:37

Catalogue Number: 2.110258

UPC: 747313525850

Synopsis

Macbeth

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Verdi was justifiably pleased with Macbeth, his tenth opera and his first on a Shakespearian subject ?EUR" it would long remain his own favourite among his "early period" operas. Eighteen years later, at the invitation of the Theatre Lyrique in Paris, he substantially revised the score, and this version (sung in Italian) is presented here in Pier Luigi Pizzi's visually arresting 2007 production. The talented young cast is headed by Giuseppe Altomare as Macbeth, one of Verdi's most profoundly modern anti-heroes, a political animal driven to bloody regicide yet doomed by his very success. Olha Zhuravel plays his obsessively ambitious wife, driven to madness by her own guilt.