Defiant Domingo's Macbeth wins them over at the Staatsoper

Por Stephen Pritchard, 29 octubre 2019

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“Driving it all was the forensic conducting of Giampaolo Bisanti, alert to every detail”

Crítica hecha desde Wiener Staatsoper, Viena el 28 octubre 2019

Verdi, Macbeth

Wiener Staatsoper

Giampaolo Bisanti, Dirección

Christian Räth, Dirección de escena

Gary McCann, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Plácido Domingo, Macbeth

Tatiana Serjan, Lady Macbeth

Ryan Speedo Green, Banquo

Jinxu Xiahou, Macduff

Mark McCullough, Diseño de iluminación

Nina Dunn, Diseño de escena

Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

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Stephen Pritchard

Stephen Pritchard began singing as a treble at the age of eight and progressed to become a tenor in Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, the Gibbons Consort and now the English Chamber Choir. Writing about music has been at the core of his 40-year career in journalism, chiefly at the Observer. He has been known to play a pretty mean jazz double bass.