About the opera
- Run time: 3hrs 00min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: Italian
- Subtitles: English, Italian and other languages
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
Verdi’s opera is a powerful musical interpretation of Shakespeare’s timeless drama of ambition and its personal cost. Raising questions of fate, superstition, guilt, and power, it marks an important step on the composer’s path from his more conventional earlier efforts to the integrated musical dramas of his mature years.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
After the performance taxis will drive up to the main entrance
Conductor Axel Kober
Macbeth Gerald Finley
Banco Roberto Tagliavini
Lady Macbeth Ekaterina Semenchuk
Macduff Saimir Pirgu
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) dominated the Italian opera scene after the eras of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and are at the core of today’s repertory.
Macbeth was the first Shakespeare play that Verdi adapted for the operatic stage. The libretto is by Francesco Maria Piave (1810–1876), Verdi’s principal librettist of the period, with additions by Andrea Maffei (1798–1885), a cosmopolitan poet and translator who introduced the work of many great foreign writers to Italians.
