by InTrieste
The Verdi theater is starting 2023 on a high note (pun intended) with the staging of Verdi’s “Macbeth” this Friday, 27 January at 8.30 pm.
Adapting any work of art to another genre is tricky business, and it seems the better the original the harder it is to transform it. However, someone as grand Giuseppe Verdi could do no wrong with inimitable text by William Shakespeare.
If the success of an opera were determined by its greatness, Macbeth would be at the forefront of the opera-goers’ favor. Perhaps it is the lack of a love story (Italians call Verdi’s Macbeth “l’opera senza amore”) that stands in the way of the popularity of this work. It cannot be the music. The work has no weak minute and captivates the listener from the beginning to the end. It is musically and artistically on a par with Verdi’s two other Shakespeare works, Otello and Falstaff.
The opening night of Macbeth is this Friday, 27 January at 8.30 pm with tickets from 35 Euros (for under 35 years old) and up. For more info, please visit www.teatroverdi-trieste.com
