Macbeth, G. Verdi

XXXI Opera and ballet season

OPERA

The wells of human ambition. Verdi felt a kind of obsessive attraction to Shakespeare. The first time he tackled Shakespeare was in 1847 (Macbeth), during his Stakhanovite years ‘in the galleys’. The composer broke away from the dogmas of the opera of his time. He did not want those conventions to soften the tragic dimension of the work, one of the darkest and most heart-rending X-rays of ambition in the history of literature. Elena Barbalich, director of this production premiered at the São Carlos National Theatre in Lisbon, assumes the psychological complexity of the Shakespearean characters. Her vision is not clear-cut: there are no goodies or baddies. The existing nuances between the two poles are infinite and the voluble weakness of the human soul is situated between them. Like Lady Macbeth, instigator of the bloody rise of her husband to the throne. 

A production of the Sâo Carlos National Theater in Lisbon.

Conductor: Andrés Salado
Producer: Elena Barbalich

Macbeth: Darío Solari
Lady Macbeth: Maribel Ortega
Bank: Rubén Amoretti
Macduff: Arseny Yakovlev
Lady of honor: Natalia Salom
Malcolm: Antoni Lliteres
Among others

Symphonic Orchestra of the Balearic Islands
Cor del Teatre Principal de Palma

Complementary activity:
Lecture: "Macbeth, from Shakespeare to Verdi"
In charge of Juan Carlos Vidal, of the association of Friends of the Opera
Saturday, March 4, at 8:00 p.m.
ATTENTION: Change of place - It will be at the SALA PETITA of Teatre Principal
Caixaforum (Plaza Weyler, 3, Palma)