Poetry Cafe 188: Macbeth (Verdi)

Playlist: texts read & music played

1. Verdi: Preludio
2. Librettist F.M. Piave on Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’
3. From letter by Verdi to Piave
4. Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Act I, Scene 5
5.  Verdi’s opera for this scene
6. Macbeth Act 2, Scene 1 & Verdi’s version
7. From letter by Verdi to Salvadore Camarano, Nov 1848
8. Claudio Abbado on the 1976 La Scala production
9. Macbeth II, 2/ III, 1/ IV, 2/V, 1/ V, 5 & Verdi’s interpretation as opera
10. Review of Salzburg Festival performance 2023