Verdi Macbeth

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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Verdi Macbeth är en musicfilm från 1987, regisserad av Claude d'Anna. I rollerna ses bland andra Leo Nucci, Shirley Verrett, Samuel Ramey och Anna Caterina Antonacci.

Med en speltid på 2 timmar och 13 minuter är Verdi Macbeth en produktion från United Kingdom. Originalspråket är italienska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa Verdi Macbeth i Sverige.