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Macbeth, Thane of Wall Street: Lyon's Verdi Festival launches with “the Scottish opera”

By Mark Pullinger, 17 March 2018
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“Daniele Rustioni drove the performance on, relishing Verdi's buoyant rhythms”
Reviewed at Opéra Nouvel, Lyon on 16 March 2018
Programme
Verdi, Macbeth
Performers
Opéra de Lyon
Daniele Rustioni, Conductor
Ivo van Hove, Director
Jan Versweyveld, Set Designer
Wojciech Dziedzic, Costume Designer
Elchin Azizov, Macbeth
Susanna Branchini, Lady Macbeth
Roberto Scandiuzzi, Banquo
Arseny Yakovlev, Macduff
Patrick Bolleire, Doctor
Louis Zaitoun, Malcolm
Chœurs de l'Opéra de Lyon
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.