Macbeth

by Giuseppe Verdi

Title: Macbeth Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Original Publisher: Ricordi The complete score to Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth as originally published by Ricordi. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.

Genres: Music

Paperback

First published May 1, 1847

About the author

Fullest artistic form of operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, included La Traviata in 1853, Aïda in 1871, and Otello in 1887; people credit him with raising the genre.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, mainly a Romantic, most influenced the 19th century. Houses frequently perform his works throughout the world, and some themes transcended the boundaries of the genre and long took root in popular culture:
* "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto
* "Va, pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco , and
* "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (The Drinking Song).

Masterworks of Giuseppe Verdi used a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, and people sometimes criticized tendency toward melodrama, which dominates the standard repertoire a century and a half.

Reviews

[Javier Fernandez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Verdi and Willie, what a dynamic duo! I attended a production of this at Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando tonight. What a treat! There's another staging on Sunday. I highly recommend it. BTW, Steinmetz Hall is ranked in the top 10 in the world for acoustics.

[Two Readers in Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

The following is not a review. Goodreads "notes" section doesn't leave enough space for production notes, and I like to track the production details when I re-read the libretto.

22July2020 - Watched meopera.org pandemic stream of production originally aired Saturday, January 12, 2008, Baritone Željko Lučić and soprano Maria Guleghina are the murderous Macbeths in Adrian Noble’s gritty production of Verdi’s tragedy. The 2008 Live in HD transmission also features tenor Dimitri Pittas as Macduff and bass-baritone John Relyea as Banquo

4Dec2020 - Tonight’s free Nightly Met Opera Stream: Soprano Anna Netrebko and baritone Željko Lučić join forces in an electrifying performance of Verdi’s Macbeth. The October 11, 2014 Live in HD transmission also features tenor Joseph Calleja as Macduff and bass René Pape as Banquo, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Stream Adrian Noble’s grim staging tonight, December 3, starting at 7:30PM ET until tomorrow, December 4, at 6:30PM ET.