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Verdi: Macbeth
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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This score undoubtedIy marks an important turning point in Verdi's operatic writing, because it brings to the foreground the characters' introspective, psychological aspect, which wouId be the fundamental feature of most of the maestro's later creations. This recording documents the production staged at Novara's Teatro Coccia during the 2013-2014 season, with Dario Argento tackIing for the rst time the direction of an opera. Verdi's masterpiece was not new to the director from Rome, who had used it as backdrop for his 1987 lm Opera, set at the Teatro Regio in Parma, indeed during a staging of Macbeth. From the master of thriller and horror one couId onIy expect a direction in line with his previous Im-making background, and from that point of view, this Macbeth does not faiI expectations, with its bloody, indeed gory scenes; they are, at any rate, consistent with the dark and brutaI character of Shakespeare's tragedy. But aside from aIl of that, Dario Argento's direction reveals extraordinariIy theatricaI quaIities, greatly enhanced by the conducting of Giuseppe Sabbatini who, on the podium, takes tempos that fit perfectly the unrolIing of the drama. |
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