MACBETH

In the organizer's words:

Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after William Shakespeare.

Melodrama in four acts - second version (1865)

recommended from the age of 16

In Italian language. With surtitles in German and English.

Duration approx. 3 hours 15 minutes

Macbeth and his lady reveal their passionate and sinister feelings to us in the most beautiful tones. But behind this beauty lies an abyss, which Verdi reveals in one of the cruellest dramas in world literature. Macbeth and his lady commit one murder after another in order to attain power and, once they have achieved it, to preserve it. The unconditional nature of their desire lends their love a radicalism that was previously unthinkable in opera. "The subject of the opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic," wrote Verdi, bringing Shakespeare's original closer to a "romantic" reading. And indeed, the witches, ghosts and apparitions, the eeriness that dominates the singing and the scenic events, and therefore the entire world of this opera, can be understood as an external image for the inner states of its protagonists.

Cast:

• Musical direction Andrea Battistoni
• Director Martin Kušej
• Stage Martin Zehetgruber
• Costumes Werner Fritz
• Lighting Reinhard Traub
• Choir Christoph Heil
• Dramaturgy Sebastian HuberOlafA. Schmitt
• Macbeth Gerald Finley
• Banco Dmitry Ulyanov
• Lady Macbeth Anastasia Bartoli
• Dama di Lady Macbeth Elene Gvritishvili
• Macduff Jonathan Tetelman
• Malcolm Granit Musliu
• Doctor Martin Snell
• Servant Christian Rieger
• Murderer Christian Rieger
• Appearance 1 Paweł Horodyski
• Appearance 2 Seonwoo Lee
• Appearance 3 Soloist(s) of the Tölzer Knabenchor
• Bavarian State Orchestra
• Bavarian State Opera Chorus
  

Price information:

Prices vary depending on seat category: € 132 /115 /95 /74 /52 /30 /14 /10