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Macbeth (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmakbet; makˈbɛt]) [1] is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Macbeth was Verdi's tenth opera and premiered on 14 March ...
Due to Rysanek's vocal technique and strong vocal endurance, she was able to sing many Verdi leads, notably Desdemona in Otello, Lady Macbeth, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Leonora in La forza del destino, and the title role of Aida. She also sang Abigaille in the Metropolitan Opera's first staging of Nabucco in 1960.
Macbeth, 1847, rev. 1865, opera by Giuseppe Verdi . Macbeth, film version of the above directed by Claude d'Anna; Macbeth, 1910 opera by Ernest Bloch; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, 1934 opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
This is a list of recordings of Macbeth, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.The first performance of the work was on 14 March 1847 at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. Verdi subsequently revised the work and the first performance of this version was on 21 April 1865 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
Bumbry made her operatic debut in 1960 when she sang Amneris in Verdi's Aida at the Paris Opéra; [1] [4] that same year she joined the Basel Opera, [13] where she was based for four years. [1] Her roles there included Bizet's Carmen, Dalila in Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saëns, Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, and Verdi's Lady Macbeth and ...
Macbeth is a 1987 French film of Verdi's opera Macbeth (libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on Shakespeare's play). Directed by Claude d'Anna , it was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival .
However, Verdi's biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz feels that Lucca chose a good house and a cast "almost as good as anyone could have mustered in Europe at the time." [6] In addition, she quotes from a long letter which Verdi wrote to the soprano Marianna Barbieri-Nini, who had been his Lady Macbeth at the 1847 premiere of that opera. In the ...
Giuseppe Verdi. The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.