Giuseppe Verdi: MACBETH

Macbeth from 1847 belongs to the early stage of Giuseppe Verdi's work and is his first opera title, which was created on the theme of the great English playwright. Shakespeare's work and Verdi's opera are a dark drama of power, tyranny, violence, paranoia of rulers, but also of one unfulfilled marriage. The transience of power and the injustice of autocracy with inexorable logic lead to the disintegration of society, to the madness of tyrants and their downfall. Verdi reworked the opera for the performance in Paris in 1865, and this version is largely the basis for our production, which does not want to be just a museum reconstruction of the famous story. It brings this story closer to the present, makes it an intimate, personal and everyday drama, and also finds in it a biting humor, thanks to which the audience can reflect much more clearly on themselves and the world that surrounds us.

Location : National Theatre / Historic Building