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VERDI, G.: Macbeth (Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2007) (NTSC)
Verdi was justifiably pleased with Macbeth , his tenth opera and his first on a Shakespearian subject – it would long remain his own favourite among his ‘early period’ operas. Eighteen years later, at the invitation of the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, he substantially revised the score, and this version (sung in Italian) is presented here in Pier Luigi Pizzi’s visually arresting 2007 production. The talented young cast is headed by Giuseppe Altomare as Macbeth, one of Verdi’s most profoundly modern anti-heroes – a political animal driven to bloody regicide yet doomed by his very success – with Olha Zhuravel as his obsessively ambitious wife, driven to madness by her own guilt.
Giuseppe Verdi
MACBETH
Macbeth – Giuseppe Altomare
Lady Macbeth – Olha Zhuravel
Banco – Pavel Kudinov
Macduff – Rubens Pelizzari
Malcolm – Marco Voleri
Il medico – Luca Dall'Amico
Un domestico di Macbeth / I apparizione – William Corrò
Il sicario – Andrea Pistolesi
II e III apparizione – Velia Moretti de Angelis, Valeria Cazacu
Ecate – Anbeta Toromani
Fleanzio – Dario Vinciguerra
Coro Lirico Marchigiano 'V. Bellini'
FORM – Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
Daniele Callegari, conductor
Pier Luigi Pizzi, stage director, set and costume designer
Filmed at the Sferisterio Opera Festival, Macerata, Italy, 2-5 August 2007.
Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 / Dolby Surround 5.0 / DTS 5.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Running time: 152 mins
No. of DVDs: 1