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2021-11-23 14:02:59
[…] feels part and parcel of an approach in which every prop or feature is designed to say something. Macbeth’s crown is stored in a cage before he and Macduff’s final fight occurs in a golden box-like contraption that feels like a larger version, thus showing how the King has become imprisoned by his own lust for power. The deaths that lead to Macbeth’s ascent are also proclaimed loud and clear as we see the former Thane of Cawdor crucified at the back of the stage and then Duncan’s body laid out before the masses. The accumulative effect of all of these things, however, is that every move seems designed to make a specific point. This is not necessarily conducive to making us feel that the Macbeths operate within a real or natural world. One thing that does not feel contrived, however, is a dream sequence in Act III in […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2021-11-21 12:30:11
Royal Opera House; Wigmore Hall, LondonAnna Pirozzi, Simon Keenlyside and numerous witches jostle for power at Covent Garden. Plus, illuminating accounts of Beethoven and Mendelssohn’s final works Corruption leads to excess. Excess leads to downfall. Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth, currently revived at Covent Garden, feels like a cautionary tale for our times. When the Thane of Cawdor takes on a second job as assassin, he and his even more dangerous queen celebrate their coronation by dressing head to foot in vulgar gold: the ultimate in bad-taste bling. Such hubris never ends well. Gold is seen as the ultimate prize here. It glimmers in the darkness of Anthony Ward’s designs. Macbeth and his wife make their proclamations from a gilded cage; Duncan arrives on a golden horse, while later, Macbeth sees a spectacular vision of golden kings riding golden horses – Scotland’s future monarchs, but none of them his own […]
2019-09-28 17:39:51
I feel your Thane
Bass-baritone Craig Colclough makes his Met debut tonight in the title role of Macbeth.
2019-04-17 06:00:40
[…] goriest. When the Three Witches foretell that he will become King of Scotland, Macbeth becomes consumed with ambition to make that happen as soon as possible, goaded on by the odious Lady Macbeth. The reigning king, Duncan, is the first to be dispatched by him, beginning a trail of slaughter that, driven by his increasing paranoia over the ambiguity of the witches’ prophesies, goes on to include his friend Banquo and the family of Macduff, Thane of Fife. Macduff himself, however, is still at large and, accompanied by Duncan’s son Malcolm, wreaks bloody revenge. THE MUSIC Verdi had unbounded admiration for Shakespeare, whom he described as ‘above all dramatists, the Greeks not excepted’. Macbeth, which he told his librettist Francesco Maria Piave was ‘one of mankind’s grandest creations’, was the first of the playwright’s works to inspire an opera from him – the plot’s rich concoction of ruthless ambition, witchcraft, […]
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