Anna Netrebko in the final scene of Act II from Verdi's MACBETH 

Bravo Bo. Well spoken!!

Verissimo!!!

Simplemente tienes pésimo gusto, es una producción absurda, falta fuerza vocal, la orquesta ahoga las notas de los débiles cantantes en mas de una ocasión. Anna es buena, pero no para este papel.

Well, I hate opera snobs and love Joan Sutherland, so where does that leave me?

***** I too like belcanto. My argument is with those who see opera only as belcanto and ignore the drama. I've gotten comments like "If I want drama, I'll go to the theater." RUBBISH! Opera is THEATER, as well as belcanto. To me Joan Sutherland was only half an artist. A belcanto specialist and zero in the drama category. That's why I ove Anna Netrebko. Not just a beautiful singer but a singing actor. Listen to her in the final scene from the MET'S Eugene Onegin with Kwiecen (Spelling?) Beautiful intense singing and drama that will tear your heart out. As to this production, I too love the traditional staging of Shakespeare, but I admire a director who thinks, is not afraid to step out of the box and attempt something new. Does it always work? No, but at least it's tried. I have seen IL TROVATORE countless times in many cities in over 50 years of attending opera and it always looked like the SAME production. How refreshing to see some of these new realizations of a great old opera. They don't all work but it will take a lot more than a crazy director to ruin the majesty and nobility of masterworks like Verdi and Shakespeare

emmanuel espinoza . Así es München. Te dejan cantar ciertos roles si tienes conexiones y amigos. Si no los tienes no cantas en la Staatsoper München. Es un pantano de corrupoción. Así realmente no es una sorpresa que la calidad haya deteriorado en forma fatal. Bajo August Everding NUNCA se hubiesen cometido tantos errores en el reparto de roles. Lo que tienes que tener para cantar en münchen es frescura, don de diva y amigos, amigos, amigos. No les importa tu calidad vocal.

Charles Henry Sorry, but the Macbeth requires a Verdibariton at least if not a dramatic voice. The poor guy with his tiny lyric voice can´t be heard most of the time. Seems to be that in München "connections" are far more important as vocal power.

my friend, nowadays you can't be as picky as you could once. The great theaters don't have a penny, especially in Italy and beyond, and they pay the singers even two years late and in any case this is a job and you have to do what they ask you to bring home the loaf. The singer thinks of singing his part, and if the director is shit, the director puts his signature on the poster, not the singer ...

Did you read the play?

There is a new production now in Berlin and instead of tacky it´s just boring. I rather go for some silly ideas than none at all.

+bruno gaudenti e i protagonisti ????????????

C'est pas une presentation du Met, mais du Bayerisches Staatoper!

Unfortunately, its the same in every opera all over the world

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George Sigalos: Well said signor!!!

Oooooooh yes, that was amazing. I was there and Zampieri drove everybody crazy.

Teil 2: Ich glaube, es gibt einfach nicht mehr genug. Keenlyside singt und spielt alles gleich. Macbeth oder Rigoletto - völlig egal. Leider

$$$$$in other words money changes everything

Hallo operaclassicc, Hoehr doch bitte mal genau zu dann hoerst du sicher keine Kratzer,-------oder deine Lautsprecher sind reparaturbeduerftig.

Hi Emil Meister. There are a quite a lot of scratches especially in the segmentation of the phrase : Si colmi il calice di vino... The syllables are over-pushed, thus bringing some conditional notes or whatever they can be called. Generally she does not have this ones, but trying to sing everything like Lady Macbeth for instance, more than of a triumph, has shown some problems of the voice.

Couldn’t have said it better

Yes it was an utterly ridiculous production. I actually saw it. But German Opera houses always do weird modern and bizarre productions. Anna however did a very good job of the singing and generally musically it was good. She sang a really good una macchia except she didn't manage the "fil di voce" as per the score the way Callas let it float and die away but overall she did a very good job. Btw do you realise those white balls on the stage are skulls made out of some white plastic!!! What do they signify/ that Macbeth in his 17 year reign killed a lot of people? All kings did in those days or they wouldn't have survived on the throne.

Ariadne7710 Stupid people being paid big money to illustrate their stupidity ;)

LohengrinTh Everyone has noticed that the staging looks silly at first sight, but no one seems to notice that Simon Kennlyside is taking a role that is just too much for him.

+emmanuel espinoza anche terror uditivo .

Of course it is but they unfortunately died.

+NiemandNY She's singing flat too often...driving me crazy.

Detectivefiction Absolutely! Perform the opera the way the composer intended it to be performed! I hate the modernizations that are being presented so often.

Great idea - let´s ask those composers what they wanted. And please be precise because everything else would be subjective and interpretation. Can´t wait to see the results ;-)

Sometimes you have to see the whole production to understand just one scene only. Maybe they are the witches trying to seduce Macbeth. Maybe they´re stripping to show to everybody that they don´t hide a knife somewhere.

Me gustan tus comentarios sempre tan positivos y, como a ti, me encanta Anna.

Aunque esta producción me parece un poco absurda.

You are more than welcome to the one dimensional, unimaginative Joan Sutherland channel. Nothing new or creative there.

Charles Henry There is a difference between being imaginative and "creating" rubbish. Yes, let the modern “geniuses” use their imagination, but leave Verdi alone.

iosonobanquo Wow, if everyone had your vision and drive, we'd still be riding horses and reading by candlelight. This Macbeth might not be yours or my preference but at least theatre people are trying to be creative and bring what is essentially a dead art, opera, some new life, and I applaud that!

Yeah, she was so clearly 'struggling' that a sophisticated Bayerische audience sold out her shows every night she was on stage....

+MsPleyades io direi più tosto poveri noi !... Verdi è divino,non può essere ''povero''....

Che schifo, ma non si vergognano TUTTI? Verdi si sta rivoltando nella tomba e maledice quest'epoca di arroganti pseudo artisti!