Verdi: Macbeth ***
Opéra de Lyon, 16th March 2018
Forget 11th-century Scotland. Ivo van Hove views Macbeth as an exploration of what people will do for power. With the world of finance dominating politics today, he sets Verdi’s opera in a Wall Street skyscraper around the time of the financial crash of 2008. With its hints of the 2011 film Margin Call, it’s a concept that largely works, even if the vocal performances did not always hit their stride. This production is revived as the opening salvo in Opéra de Lyon’s Verdi Festival, a trilogy of works dominated by political wrangling and the struggle for power.
Elchin Azizov (Macbeth)
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