Organization

Singer

Baritone

Evgueniy Alexiev

Macbeth

Frank Dolphin Wong

Bass

Yoshiaki Kimura

Banquo

Moon Soo Park

Soprano

Soojin Moon-Sebastian

Lady Macbeth

Mezzo-soprano

Elena Schneider

Lady-in-waiting

Tenor

Daniel Pataky

Macduff

Max Friedrich Schäffer

Malcolm

Yun Geun Choi

Doctor

A Servant of Macbeth

Assassin

Harold

Conductor

Alexander Kalajdzic

Stage director

Balasz Koválik

Costume designer

Angelika Höckner

Set designer

Hermann Feuchter

Dramaturge

Larissa Wieczorek

Theater Bielefeld

Others

Bielefelder Opernchor

Italian

Bielefeld

Germany

Stadttheater

Macbeth Verdi

Public

German

Approved

Dramma lirico in four acts
libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei // Based on The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare // In Italian with German surtitles

As a warning example of unscrupulous lust for power, Shakespeare's Macbeth has lost nothing of its topicality, even 400 years after the death of the great poet, especially in Giuseppe Verdi's setting. Verdi's opera deals with the psychological neglect of two people who are consumed by their ambition and unbridled desire. They fall into a bloody intoxication of destruction, which ultimately becomes their own undoing. Again and again, the work opens up a view of the social consequences and manipulative mechanisms of tyranny.

With Macbeth , Giuseppe Verdi broke the operatic conventions of his time and created one of his darkest and most impressive works. Powerful choral scenes, from which the rebellion of the oppressed and persecuted can be heard, contrast with expressive arias and duets, in which the exceptional psychological situations of the protagonists are sonically illuminated. This is how Verdi created an unmistakable masterpiece.

English

Macbeth by Verdi, From (2016/2016), Directed by Balasz Koválik,, Conductor Alexander Kalajdzic, Stadttheater, Bielefeld, Germany

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