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Macbeth at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Dates: (10/6/2013 - 10/26/2013 )

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Deutsche Oper Berlin


Bismarckstr. 35
Berlin,Berlin 10627

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Tickets: €29.00 - €90.00

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Witches prophesy that Macbeth will become King of Scotland. Not he, but Banquo, will however be the progenitor of future kings. Driven by the relentless greed for power of wife, murdering the king and numerous atrocities enable him to take possession of the crown and ascend the throne of Scotland. In the pursuit of this goal, he destroys everything in his way. Inevitably, the price for this is madness: Lady Macbeth cannot free herself from the blood of the murdered King Duncan – the tyrant himself cannot escape the sinister prophecy of the witches.

»The subject of the opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic« – Giuseppe Verdi's appraisal of what is surely William Shakespeare's most sinister strongly suggests its relegation to the genre of the »romantic opera«. Witches, ghosts, apparitions, all uncanny, scenes dominated by chanting, can in fact be understood as externally depicting the inner states of the protagonists: owing to the fundamentally romantic orientation MACBETH is far more an invitation to psychological analysis than were many of the preceding works, from NABUCCO via ERNANI to ATTILA.

In his efforts to reflect Shakespeare's model, Verdi did not allow himself or his librettists, Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei, any venialities. Determined »to achieve something more than the ordinary«, the composer was implacable in his demands. He thus succeeded in creating musically developed personalities as never before seen, and he distanced himself from the conventions of traditional Italian opera to a degree unparalleled.

The subtlety of human characterisation, which enables even the most harmless figure to literally walk over dead bodies without inhibition in order to seize power and cling to this power - mostly achieved by wrongful means - lays the groundwork in MACBETH for the modern psychological opera far more frequently associated with the Wagnerian music drama.

Cast and Creative team for Macbeth at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Conductor Paolo Arrivabeni
Director Robert Carsen
Stage design Radu Boruzescu
Costume design Miruna Boruzescu
Light design Manfred Voss
Chorus master William Spaulding
Macbeth Thomas Johannes Mayer
Simon Keenlyside (21.11.2013 | 26.11.2013)
Banquo Albert Pesendorfer
Ante Jerkunica (21.11.2013 | 26.11.2013)
Lady Macbeth Marianne Cornetti
Liudmyla Monastyrska (21.11.2013 | 26.11.2013)
chambermaid of Lady Macbeth Fionnuala McCarthy
Macduff Yosep Kang
Thomas Blondelle (12.10.2013)
Malcolm Clemens Bieber
Macbeth's servant / A doctor / Messenger Andrew Harris
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