Wielkopolska

Cezary Ostrowski

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Macbeth's latest creation arouses a lot of enthusiasm for its originality and magnificence. She also awakens sleeping monsters. In addition, the scenography constantly inspires enthusiasm, and the costumes and lights also constantly do the same. It is truly a rare and difficult performance to succeed in harmonizing these elements perfectly in an opera, with such fervor and such grace.

What more could you want? No doubt only to see this show once again.

Cezary Ostrowski

 

Macbeth : la naissance d’une Lady, Opera Online

Alain Duault​

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Olivier Fredj’s staging of this new production at the Monnaie de Bruxelles gives an intelligent answer to two aspects: we indeed attend a social drama, projected into a contemporary world, a hotel where everything passes and happens, but we also witness a quivering reflection on the Macbeth/Lady Macbeth couple, on desire and power – the very power that, in this unbalanced couple, raises questions about another form of dichotomy, that of power and impotence: nothing seems to link Macbeth to his wife, certainly not sensuality, so everything is concentrated on the sexual substitute represented by power

Olivier Fredj’s staging is that of a true man of the theatre, precise and dynamic, made of gestures that make up a character. The whole ensemble and the perfect direction of the actors give the performance a true force.​

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Wielkopolska

Adam Olaf Gibowski

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The most striking effect in this production is the creativity to be found in the magnificent scenery, Dominique Boivin’s dynamic choreography throughout the whole performance, not forgetting the wonderful conception of Christophe Forey’s lighting. Macbeth lives in a world of madness, torn by the most terrifying visions of decline and punishment for murders. The demons, represented by the dancers do not leave the hero the slightest moment of respite. Madness and debasement go hand in hand with frantic vulgar sexual orgy, inspired by Kubrick’s films. It is a very coherent and suggestive vision that is justified by the ingenuity and details reviewed again and again until they reflect pain.  I think that the performance directed by Olivier Fredj is likely to become one of the Teatr Wielki’s major productions.

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Dobrochna Zalas

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The true value of Olivier’s Fredj’s staging is most certainly the idea of presenting Macbeth by introducing treasures of film references and pop culture successes. It is a story that could be experienced by any one of us, incited by the cunning smile of Lady Fortune! This is the real tragic irony that exists in any society and Fredj proves this perfectly, first by imposing Rorschach’s test on the audience by projecting Jean Lecointre’s fantasy graphics and then shaking the walls of the theatre and invading it with the chorus. Olivier Fredj tells us we all suffer from this evil, not just Macbeth

The costumes are full of fantasy in black and white and the eccentric hair does mix the codes of the…

It was Hecate’s eloquent solo dance that most probably won over the hearts of the audience.

There is something of the music hall or a video clip in Olivier Fredj’s Macbeth: he successfully reveals the abundance of cultural references in the opera, allowing us to relate more closely to Macbeth’s fate.

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