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Macbeth

Giuseppe Verdi

New Teatro alla Scala production

Complete edition of the first version 1847

From 28 March to 21 April 2013

Running Time: 3 hours intermission included

Sung in Italian with electronic libretto in Italian, English

Notes on the performancesOpen: Hearing the name Macbetto in the verses of Francesco Maria Piave might arouse a smile or two, but the terror that grips us listening to the furious music of the young Verdi brings one out in cold shivers. The singing, which is spoken and murmured in the shadows in this opera of plots, conspiracies, suspects and vendettas translates Shakespeare’s text, so dear to Romanticism, into a melodrama . Yet even in the midst of the horror, there is a little idealism: we delude ourselves that the blood-thirsty potentates can feel remorse for their crimes, or even go mad and die as a result, just as Lady Macbeth does. If only!

The violent, creeping score will be overseen by Russian director Valery Gergiev and new yet tried-and-tested voices such as Franco Vassallo and Lucrezia Garcia.

After the Macbeth with its wrought copper backgrounds directed by Strehler, the one of rotating cube and garish colours fame under Graham Vick’s direction, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, who is also co-creator of the set design, embarks on directing the thundering work. Great secrecy surrounds this all-new staging. We know that all the latest technologies will be used to translate the unconfessable urges- including those of the common man, perhaps even our own – that lead towards the delirium of power, peopled with images, indecipherable dreams, interior torment, and mental machinations. For which, in the end, a price is paid.

Direction

Conductor: Valery Gergiev (28 Mar.; 2, 7, 9 Apr.)
Pier Giorgio Morandi (4, 13, 16, 18, 21 Apr.)
Staging: Giorgio Barberio Corsetti
Sets: Giorgio Barberio Corsetti and Cristian Taraborrelli
Costumes: Cristian Taraborrelli and Angela Buscemi
Lights: Fabrice Kebour
Choreography: Raphaëlle Boitel
Video design: Fabio Massimo Iaquone and Luca Attili

CAST

Macbeth: Franco Vassallo (28 Mar.; 2, 7, 13, 16, 21 Apr.)
Vitaliy Bilyy (4, 9, 18 Apr.)
Banco: Štefan Kocán (28 Mar.; 2, 7, 13, 18, 21 Apr.)
Adrian Sampetrean (4, 9, 16 Apr.)
Lady Macbeth: Lucrecia Garcia (28 Mar.; 2, 4, 7, 13, 16, 21 Apr.)
Tatiana Serjan (9, 18 Apr.)
Dama: Emilia Bertoncello
Macduff: Stefano Secco (28 Mar.; 2, 7, 13, 16, 21 Apr.)
Woo Kyung Kim (4, 9, 18 Apr.)
Malcolm: Antonio Corianò
Medico: Gianluca Buratto
Domestico: Ernesto Panariello
Sicario: Luciano Andreoli
Prima apparizione: Lorenzo Tedone
Seconda apparizione: Beatrice Fasano (28 Mar.; 2, 4 Apr.)
Andrea Camilla Mambretti (7, 9, 13 Apr.)
Matilde Di Fonzo (16 Apr.)
Patricia Fodor (18, 21 Apr.)
Terza apparizione: Lucilla Amerini (28 Mar.; 2, 4 Apr.)
Matilde Di Fonzo (7, 9 Apr.)
Margherita Pezzella (13, 21 Apr.)
Benjamin Natali (16, 18 Apr.)

The management of the Theatre deeply regrets to announce that due to a strike organised by the SLC-CGIL, UILCOM-UIL and FIALS_CISAL trade unions, the performance of Macbeth on 7 April is cancelled.
Refund or replacement methods are online.

ON STAGE

March 2013

April 2013

TICKETS

€ 13, € 24, € 42, € 66, € 85, € 110, € 165, € 210

SHIFTS

28/03 Not in subscription02/04 Series M Mini Subs.04/04 Not in subscription07/04 Series O Mini Subs.09/04 Not in subscription13/04 Series N Week-end Subs.16/04 Not in subscription18/04 La Scala UNDER30 G21/04 Not in subscription

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