Verdi: Macbeth / Welser-Most/Zurich Opera, Hampson, Marrocu [DVD]

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Album Summary

Performers

• Paoletta Marrocu (Soprano)
• Luis Lima (Tenor)
• Thomas Hampson (Baritone)
• Roberto Scandiuzzi (Bass)

Conductor

• Welser-Most, Franz

Ensembles

• Zurich Opera Chorus
• Zurich Opera Orchestra

Composer

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)

Notes & Reviews:

Live Recording from the Zurich Opera House, 2001 + With this opera, Verdi composed a true music drama. For this great early opera, he demanded from his librettist Francesco Maria Piave a text that would have "extravagance, originality brevity and sublimity." Thomas Hampson made a triumphant début in the title role of Verdi's Macbeth in this Zurich Opera production, with Paoletta Marrocu as his beautiful, power-hungry wife. In David Pountney's hard-edged, post-modern production duality of man and woman is constantly brought into question. His Macbeth is not just a story about the usurpation of a crown with supernatural intervention, it resonates with symbolic references to the battle of the sexes and throws into sharp relief the link between power and gender. A strong supporting cast draws a top quality performance from the Zurich Opera Orchestra.

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Notes & Reviews:

Run Time: 141 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German, Italian, English, French, Spanish

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Works Details

Verdi, Giuseppe : Macbeth

• Performers: Paoletta Marrocu (Soprano); Luis Lima (Tenor); Thomas Hampson (Baritone); Roberto Scandiuzzi (Bass)
• Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst
• Ensemble: Zurich Opera Chorus
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1847