opera notebook

some operas I have seen on video


Giuseppe Verdi, Macbeth (1847)
Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, 2022

Life is just a bowl of horrors. Hrólfur Sæmundsson and Ewa Płonka
Life is just a bowl of horrors. Hrólfur Sæmundsson and Ewa Płonka

The ingenious set by Henrik Ahr has Macbeth and his Lady keep trying to clamber out of the sink of evil they have perpetrated, but always sliding back down.

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