I'm Happy after buyingThis Verdi Macbeth Simon Keenlyside
Let me add my voice to the chorus of accolades for this Macbeth. This is perhaps the most moving and involving performance of the opera I've ever experienced. M. Keenlyside took awhile to warm into the part ; most of Act 1 and part of Act 2 he seemed to be doing Hamlet again. However he then became the MAN - bloody Macbeth! and by the last act was singing and acting better than I've ever heard or seen him. A WOW expericence! Lady Macbeth (L. Monastyrska) led off quietly at first and then start ed to become fully the character in "La luce langue". She then grew into the role so that she was completely deranged by the time of "Una macchia". I've heard fifty years of Macbeths but I've never heard any performance so utterly frightening as Lludmyla gave. Her stained, strange voice would have pleased Verdi himself. The other roles were very well done as well and all did a creditable job. Most of the production, sets, costume s were all good to seviceable. Phyllida Loyd for the most part kept things going but as most tinkering directors do overdid a few spots. The children business was just too much; especially the ones coming in for the Macbeths. A little of this would have done nicely for suggestive realism but not a whole kindergart en class. Antonio Pappano led the Royal Opera House in a stunning performance; he is one of the greatest opera conductors of the day.
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