Verdi Macbeth Chailly

Verdi Macbeth Chailly (1987)


  • Genre: Music
  • Release Date: 1987-01-01
  • Runtime: 2h 13min
  • Language: Italiano
  • Production Company: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Claude d'Anna

Summary

Claude D'Anna's film of Verdi's Macbeth is a gloomy affair, stressing the descent into madness of the principal villains. It's acted by the singers of the Decca recording of the opera (with two substitutions of actors standing in for singers) and the lip-synching is generally unobtrusive. The musical performance is superb, conducted by Riccardo Chailly with admirable fire, and sung by some of the leading lights of the opera stages of the 1980s. Shirley Verrett virtually owned the role of Lady Macbeth at the time, and she delivers a terrific performance, the voice equal to the role's wide register leaps and it's suffused with emotion, whether urging her husband on to murder or maddened by guilt in the Sleepwalking Scene. Leo Nucci's resonant Macbeth may lack the ultimate in vocal color and steadiness (his last notes of the great aria Pietà, rispetto, amore are wobbly) but he compensates with intensity in both singing and acting.

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  • Leo Nucci

    as Macbeth
  • Shirley Verrett

    as Lady Macbeth
  • Samuel Ramey

    as Banquo
  • Anna Caterina Antonacci

    as Dama de Lady Macbeth
  • Veriano Luchetti

    as Macduff
  • Antonio Barasorda

    as Malcolm
  • Sergio Fontana

    as Mendico
  • Nicolas Sansier

    as Fleanzio
  • Riccardo Chailly

    as Conductor
Writing Francesco Maria Piave Writer
Production Henry Lange Producer
Sound Giuseppe Verdi Original Music Composer
Directing Claude d'Anna Director

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