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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Live Recording from The Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1972
This epic opera inspired by William Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece was written in 1847, but did not receive its British premiere until 1938, when it was presented for the first time at Glyndebourne. Stage Director Michael Hadjimischev and Conductor John Pritchard made this production a breathtaking experience. The tragedy is a penetrating, concentrated and harrowing study of the ambition of Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth. In the end both seem to verge on hallucination and madness as they recoil from the mayhem they have created around them. The production features an outstanding international cast, with the Greek baritone Kostas Paskalis in the title role and British star Josephine Barstow making an exciting Glyndebourne debut as Lady Macbeth. The designer, Emanuele Luzzati, has created a series of stunning visual impressions, including the chilling witches’ chorus, the sumptuous banquet at which Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo and Lady Macbeth’s heart-rending sleepwalking scene. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9 / NTSC Original Language: IT Subtitle Languages: GB, DE, FR, ES Running Time: 146 mins FSK: 0 | 
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Leo Nucci (Macbeth), Enrico Iori (Banco), Sylvie Valayre (Lady Macbeth), Roberto Iuliano (Macduff), Tiziana Tramonti (Dama di Lady Macbeth), Nicola Pascoli (Malcolm), Enrico Turco (Il Medico), Davide Ronzoni (L'Araldo), Riccardo di Stefano (Un Domestico) & Noris Borgogelli (Il Sicario) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Bruno Bartoletti (conductor) & Liliana Cavani (stage director) Alberto Verso, costume designer Sergio Rossi, lighting designer Amedeo Amodio, choreographer C Major presents Verdi’s opera Macbeth, as part of their Tutto Verdi project. Shakespeare was a lifelong inspiration for Verdi. At the time of its première he considered it his best work. The performance is conducted by Bruno Bartoletti and features a stellar cast, including Leo Nucci, Enrico Iori and Sylvie Valayre. Picture: Full HD Sound: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM 2.0 Running Time: 166 minutes (Opera: 156 minutes, Bonus: 10 minutes) Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese Booklet: English, German, French Available Worldwide “What makes this production so rewarding are the utterly compelling performances of the Macbeths, Shakepearian in intensity...[Nucci's] Macbeth is a deeply thoughtful portrayal...Valayre is up there with the finest Lady Macbeths.” International Record Review, May 2013 |
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Recorded in 1986 (for Claude d`Anna's film of the opera) “Nucci's Macbeth is full of the right sense of fear, foreboding and nervous energy, and it is predominantly well sung...Ramey provides quite the best singing, a sturdy, imposing Banquo...The smaller roles are very well taken...[Chailly's] direction seems direct, unfussy and keen” Gramophone Magazine, June 1987 “For a time Shirley Verrett was the world's favourite Lady Macbeth. And Chailly reminds us why. Nucci is a sweet-toned villain, but it's Ramey as Banquo who carries off the prizes.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2012 ***** | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Black, red, cream and gold are the colours that define Phyllida Lloyd’s Royal Opera House staging of Verdi’s robust, yet penetrating setting of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Manipulated by a whole coven of cunning, scarlet-turbanned witches, the characters often evoke figures in a splendid Gothic fresco. With Simon Keenlyside making his British role-debut, as an athletic, brooding Macbeth and Liudmyla Monastyrska as his Lady, both imperious and subtle, this performance, masterfully conducted by Antonio Pappano, goes far beyond mere sound and fury. This production went out LIVE to cinema screens around the world. …an impressive company showcase, full of moments when chorus and orchestra are at full throttle. Whipped up by Antonio Pappano's baton, they sound truly thrilling.’ The Guardian Extra features: Cast gallery Interviews with Simon Keenlyside, Raymond Aceto and Liudmyla Monastyrska Rehearsing Macbeth with Antonio Pappano Running time 170 mins Region Code All regions Picture format 16:9 Anamorphic Sound format 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS Menu languages EN Subtitles EN/FR/DE/IT/ES “Lloyd's Covent Garden staging of Verdi's opera has a good deal going for it; there's plenty of atmosphere in Anthony Ward's aptly dark-toned sets...Keenlyside sings the title role with imagination and insight, even if his lyric approach doesn't command the full cut and thrust of a true Verdi baritone...Pappano is an authoritative Verdian, punching the score out into the theatre.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2012 **** “you know that Keenlyside is an accomplished lieder-singer by the dramatic precision in this phrase readings throughout (his Act 4 aria has such emotional transparency he almost breaks your heart)...Monastyrska unleashes such pent-up venom with her sharp-edged vocalism that the total package is almost too psychologically repulsive...the production is wonderfully atmospheric...Pappano is the most important artistic catalyst” Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Black, red, cream and gold are the colours that define Phyllida Lloyd’s Royal Opera House staging of Verdi’s robust, yet penetrating setting of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Manipulated by a whole coven of cunning, scarlet-turbanned witches, the characters often evoke figures in a splendid Gothic fresco. With Simon Keenlyside making his British role-debut, as an athletic, brooding Macbeth and Liudmyla Monastyrska as his Lady, both imperious and subtle, this performance, masterfully conducted by Antonio Pappano, goes far beyond mere sound and fury. This production went out LIVE to cinema screens around the world. …an impressive company showcase, full of moments when chorus and orchestra are at full throttle. Whipped up by Antonio Pappano's baton, they sound truly thrilling.’ The Guardian Extra features: Cast gallery Interviews with Simon Keenlyside, Raymond Aceto and Liudmyla Monastyrska Rehearsing Macbeth with Antonio Pappano Running time 170 mins Region Code All regions Picture format 1080i High Definition / 16:9 Sound format 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS Menu languages EN Subtitles EN/FR/DE/IT/ES “Lloyd's Covent Garden staging of Verdi's opera has a good deal going for it; there's plenty of atmosphere in Anthony Ward's aptly dark-toned sets...Keenlyside sings the title role with imagination and insight, even if his lyric approach doesn't command the full cut and thrust of a true Verdi baritone...Pappano is an authoritative Verdian, punching the score out into the theatre.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2012 **** “you know that Keenlyside is an accomplished lieder-singer by the dramatic precision in this phrase readings throughout (his Act 4 aria has such emotional transparency he almost breaks your heart)...Monastyrska unleashes such pent-up venom with her sharp-edged vocalism that the total package is almost too psychologically repulsive...the production is wonderfully atmospheric...Pappano is the most important artistic catalyst” Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Production: Adrian Noble, Set & costume designer: Mark Thompson, Lighting designer: Jean Kalman & Choreographer: Sue Lefton EMI Classics continues its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera with a new production of Verdi’s richly haunting opera, Macbeth, as part of this season’s Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series. For the first time in 20-years, the Metropolitan Opera presents the first of Verdi’s 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 Verdi’s haunting score with tension and a type of brutality that this chilling work commands. “…well propelled by Levine, and fairly effectively staged by Adrian Noble in a scruffy, modern-Balkans ambiance. Zeljko Lucic is a solid, mellifluous anti-hero, but low on charisma; Maria Guleghina has enough for two, wielding her huge voice with electrifying physicality, and with intelligence.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2008 **** “characteristically lavish, with a big chorus, singing really splendidly...Lucic as a murderous Macbeth, singing strongly, is determined enough, but Maria Guleghina is even more so...Levine conducts dramatically and the production gains from its spectacle, and with a powerfully sung close, many will feel that this should be a primary choice.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Teatro Regio di Parma, June 2006 “This 2006 live production goes straight ot the top of the list because Leo Nucci's unforgettably powerful portrayal of Macbeth is a tower of strength....[Valayre's] voice has a certain amount of intrusive vibrato but her singing is strong and clear, and her acting vivid yet not overly melodramatic.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Piero Cappuccilli (Macbeth), Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Banco), Plácido Domingo (Macduff), Stefania Malagú (Lady in Waiting), Antonio Savastano (Malcolm), Carlo Zardo (Medico), Giovanni Foiani (Servo di Macbeth), Alfredo Mariotti (Sicario), Sergio Fontana (Araldo) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado “Abbado's tempi are unconventional, but with slow speeds he springs the rhythm so infectiously that the results are most compelling...[Verrett] makes a highly individual Lady Macbeth. Cappuccilli has never sung with a finer range of tone or more imagination on record than here, and Placido Domingo makes a real, sensitive character out of the small role of Macduff.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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