Schedule - Deutsche Oper Berlin
Macbeth
Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]
Oper in vier Akten
Dichtung von Francesco Maria Piave und Andrea Maffei
nach William Shakespeare
Uraufführung am 14. März 1847 in Florenz [1. Fassung],
am 21. April 1865 in Paris [2. Fassung]
Premiere an der Deutschen Oper Berlin am 23. November 2024
3 hrs / 1 interval
In italienischer Sprache mit deutschen und englischen Übertiteln
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the Rank foyer on the right
empfohlen ab 15 Jahren- Fabien TeignéArtis DzerveSascha ZaunerDana Marie EschHagen HenningEmil Phyrr
- Premiere23202418:00NovSatE prices: € 184.00 / 144.00 / 100.00 / 64.00 / 36.00
- 27202419:00NovWedD prices: € 144.00 / 112.00 / 82.00 / 50.00 / 30.00
- 30202419:30NovSatD prices: € 144.00 / 112.00 / 82.00 / 50.00 / 30.00
- 04202419:30DecWedD prices: € 144.00 / 112.00 / 82.00 / 50.00 / 30.00
- 08202417:00DecSunD prices: € 144.00 / 112.00 / 82.00 / 50.00 / 30.00
- 11202519:30JanSatC prices: € 108.00 / 90.00 / 64.00 / 40.00 / 26.00
- Generational Performance19202517:00JanSunC prices: € 108.00 / 90.00 / 64.00 / 40.00 / 26.00
- Last performance in this season25202518:00JanSatC prices: € 108.00 / 90.00 / 64.00 / 40.00 / 26.00
Mit Unterstützung des Förderkreises der Deutschen Oper Berlin e. V. Präsentiert von radio3 und taz.
- Fabien TeignéArtis DzerveSascha ZaunerDana Marie EschHagen HenningEmil Phyrr
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.