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Verdi's harrowing Shakespearean tragedy provides the ideal material for director Marie-Ève Signeyrole's spectacular visual power, whose aesthetics do not shy away from competing with modern blockbuster cinema.



  • Conductor: Enrique Mazzola
  • Staging: Marie-Ève Signeyrole
With
Roman Burdenko / Thomas Lehman, Marko Mimica / Byung Gil Kim, Anastasia Bartoli / Felicia Moore, Attilio Glaser / Andrei Danilov and others.


About the work

MACBETH was the first of Shakespeare’s plays to be set to music by Verdi, in 1847.
Despite his decades of interest in the English playwright, he did not adapt another work of Shakespeare’s until late in his career. Verdi’s operatic rendition of this tale of murky prophecies and bloody struggles for the throne of Scotland came in the hugely productive decade that Verdi himself came to refer to as his »galley slave years«.

Still striving for critical recognition, he turned out a string of operas that expanded on the bel canto genre.
MACBETH was part of an evolution in Italian opera, a development that was even more evident in the modified version released in 1865.

In typical fashion Verdi roughened up the storyline and injected some emotional twists and turns, intensifying the drama in the process and creating a tense momentum that sends the protagonists hurtling towards their respective gruesome ends.


About the production

Following on from her triumphs with BABY DOLL and NEGAR in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and her recent productions at the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Semperoper Dresden, the MusikTheater an der Wien and La Monnaie in Brüssel, Marie-Ève Signeyrole returns to the venue on Bismarckstrasse for her first staging of a new production on the main stage.
Verdi’s hard-hitting Shakespearean tragedy provides the perfect material for the arresting visuals that are a hallmark of the French director, whose aesthetic vision can hold its own with any modern cinematic blockbuster.

  • 3 hours / One break













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Additional information
In Italian with German and English surtitles.


  • Opera in four acts
  • Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei, based on a tragedy by William Shakespeare
  • First performed on 14th March 1847 in Florence (1st version), 21st April 1865 in Paris (2nd version)
  • Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 23 November 2024







Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the Rank foyer on the right

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Participating artists
Enrique Mazzola (Musikalische Leitung)
Marie-Ève Signeyrole (Inszenierung)
Fabien Teigné (Bühne)
Yashi (Kostüme)
Artis Dzerve (Video)
Sascha Zauner (Licht)
Jeremy Bines (Chöre)
Louis Geisler (Dramaturgie)
Konstantin Parnian (Dramaturgie)
Roman Burdenko (Macbeth)
Marko Mimica (Banco)
Anastasia Bartoli (Lady Macbeth)
Nina Solodovnikova (Kammerfrau der Lady Macbeth)
Attilio Glaser (Macduff)
Thomas Cilluffo (Malcolm)
Dean Murphy (Diener Macbeths / Ein Herold)
Gerard Farreras (Ein Arzt / Ein Mörder)
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre)
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)
Dates
November 2024
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