Word: macbeths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Interviewer: In creating a production that might have been seen in your day, Hall seems to be emphasizing that this is your Macbeth, not Shakespeare's. Doesn't this violate your expressed wish to "serve the poet better than the composer...
Interviewer: Maestro, the Metropolitan Opera has unveiled Sir Peter Hall's new production of your opera Macbeth, starring Baritone Sherrill Milnes and Soprano Renata Scotto. When the revised version of Macbeth flopped in Paris in 1865, you were criticized for your treatment of Shakespeare. What attracted you to the play...
Verdi: This tragedy is one of the greatest human creations! Some find that I did not know Shakespeare when I wrote Macbeth. In this they are wrong. I may not have rendered Macbeth well, but that I do not know, that I do not understand and do not feel Shakespeare...
Verdi: If we cannot make something great from it, let us try at least to make something out of the ordinary. I beg you, do not neglect this Macbeth. I need an excellent chorus. Pay attention also to the stage machinery. I am sure that you will mount all the rest with that splendor that so distinguishes you and that you will pay no heed to economy...
Interviewer: You feel that the three principal characters in the opera are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth-to whom you charmingly refer simply as "Lady"-and the witches. The women of the Met chorus dig into their demonic roles impressively. And Mimes, after taking four months off from opera last season to recover from a throat ailment, is singing more robustly than ever. But what about Madame Scotto as your Lady...