MET Opera on DVD - Macbeth - James Levine

Andrea Gruber, Roberto Aronica and Lado Ataneli star in Verdis early operatic masterpiece, Macbeth - filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in High-definition. EMI Classics continues its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera with a new production of Verdis richly haunting opera, Macbeth, as part of this seasons Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series. For the first time in 20-years, the Metropolitan Opera presents the first of Verdis three operas based on Shakespeare, in a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful production (New York Times) by English director Adrian Noble, making his Met debut. At the time of composition, Macbeth was unique. Not only was it considered both musically and dramatically bold, but it was the first opera that can truly be described as Shakespearean. It was the first that altered operatic conventions to serve the play rather than converting the play into traditional operatic formulas. After 35 highly successful years as Music director of the Metropolitan Opera, a relationship unparalleled and unique in the musical world today, James Levine conducts Verdis haunting score with tension and a type of brutality that this chilling work commands.

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[mjrapa]

@foropera its guleghina

[foropera]

^^If even the "producer", EMI, doesn't know the cast..! A bit shamy.

It's obviously neither Gruber here nor Aronica.

[owenboi66]

Thanks for clarifying that. Didn't think that was Andrea Gruber!

[verdiotello]

Zelko Lucic, Maria Guleghina,Dimitri Pittas, John Reylea, dir. James Levine. yo asisti a una de las funciones y fue increible, muy buena porduccion de A. Noble.