For the next four weeks, Classical 90.5 will present performances from the annual Glimmerglass Festival, a one-of-a-kind summer destination for opera lovers and first-timers alike. The scenic campus lies on the shore of sparkling Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, New York, nestled between the Adirondack and Catskill mountains. Each season, the company presents new productions of opera and musical theater, accompanied by myriad concerts, lectures, master classes and more.
This week's opera, to be broadcast at noon on Saturday, November 7, is Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi, set to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The performance will be sung in Italian and will run approximately three hours. Joseph Colaneri conducts.
Macbeth, which had its debut at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in March of 1847, was Verdi's tenth opera and the first of his adaptions of Shakespeare's plays for the operatic stage. Almost twenty years later, Verdi revised and expanded Macbeth in a French version, which was first performed in Paris in April of 1865. In Verdi's capable hands, Macbeth remains a classic tale of the corruption of an ambitious man.
THE CAST
Macbeth: Eric Owens
Banquo: Soloman Howard
Lady Macbeth: Melody Moore
Servant/Doctor: Nathan Milholin
Macduff: Michael Brandenburg
Lady-in-waiting: Mithra Mastropierro
Malcolm: Marco D. Cammarota
Assassin: Derrell Acon
Herald: Hunter Enoch
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