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MACBETH   

Theater  Royal  by La Monnaie / Teatr Wielki Poznan

Sep-Oct 2016

Giuseppe  Verdi

There is a mystery surrounding Macbeth, a feeling of doubt, tinged with fear and almost superstitious uncertainty.  

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Staging Macbeth is precisely trying to make this mystery real, to provoke superstition and using words, music and the visual, to bring the audience to feel its 'uncanny strangeness' and feel the fear to pronouce the cursed name. And that fear and that strangeness is inside us.

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This is how we want to stage Macbeth. By clashing reality and fantasy in such a way that we ourselves will doubt.  

Verdi was to insist that his librettist and the performers "serve the poet better than the Maestro". To understand the essence of the play, one must approach Verdi's opera as the composer did himself, by giving primacy to Shakespeare's words.

He made it an 'anti-opera', breaking with the cantabile and love dramaturgy and even excluding the primacy of the tenor.  

 

It is in the word and its psychological and poetic interpretation that we base our reading of Macbeth.

Shakespeare barely touched on political issues, but, for the first time in his work, chose to approach psychological complexity, inner conflicts of the two main characters, revealing their true selves through the outrageous theatricality of witchcraft and fantasy.

Director                                      OLIVIER FREDJ


Graphic Artistic director                      JEAN LECOINTRE

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Scenography                                OLIVIER FREDJ
                                            GASPARD PINTA
                                             MASSIMO TRONCANETTI


Costumes                                    FRÉDÉRIC LLINARES


Lighting                                     CHRISTOPHE FOREY


Choreography                                 DOMINIQUE BOIVIN

 

THE CURRENCY - DE MUNT

 

Conductor                                     PAOLO CARIGNANI

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Macbeth                                    SCOTT HENDRICKS
Banco                                        CARLO COLOMBARA
Lady Macbeth                               BÉATRICE URIA-MONZON
Dama di Lady Macbeth                         LIES VANDEWEGE
Macduff                                      ANDREW RICHARDS
Malcolm                                       JULIAN HUBBARD
Medico, Servo, Araldo                          JUSTIN HOPKINS

Choir direction                           MARTINO FAGGIANI

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TEATR WILEKI POZNAN

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Conductor                                     GABRIEL CHMURA

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Macbeth                                      DARIO SOLARI
Banco                                        RAFAL KORPIK
Lady Macbeth                                KRISTINA KOLAR
Dama di Lady Macbeth                NATALIA PUCZNIEWSKA-BRAUN 
Macduff                                      PIOTR FRIEBE
Malcolm                                      ALBERT MEMETI
Medico, Servo, Araldo                          TOMASZ MASUR

Choir direction                             MARIUSZ OTTO

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PRODUCTION  La Monnaie / De Munt
CO-PRODUCTION  Poznán Opera House 2016

director

Olivier Fredj 
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