Opera
Ballet & Dance
Drama

MACBETH

G.Verdi : MACBETH

<Opera in 3 Acts>
<sung in Italian with Japanese supertitles>
OPERA HOUSE

STAFF
Music by   Giuseppe Verdi
Original by   William Shakespeare
Libretto by   Francesco Maria Piave / Andrea Maffei
Conductor : Riccardo Frizza
Production : Noda Hideki
Scenery Design : Horio Yukio
Costume Design : Wada Emi
Lighting Design : Hattori Motoi
Choreograph : Kisanuki Kuniko
Revial rehearsed by : Taoshita Tetsu
Stage Manager : Onita Masahiko
Chorus Master : Misawa Hirofumi
Chorus : New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra : The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Presented by : New National Theatre, Tokyo

CAST
Macbeth : Carlos Álvarez (17th:Izumi Ryohei)**
Lady Macbeth : Georgina Lukács *
Banquo : Osawa Ken
Macduff : Mizuguchi Satoshi
Malcolm : Uchiyama Shingo
Dama di Lady Macbeth : Watanabe Atsuko
Medico : Katayama Masashi
Domestico : Omori Kazuhide
Sicario : Shinoki Junichi
Araldo : Shioiri Koji
Apparizione 1 : Tomokiyo Takashi
Apparizione 2 : Takahara Yuki
Apparizione 3 : Naono Yoko

*Iano Tamar, who was originally to perform the role of Lady Macbeth, is unable to perform.
Alternatively, Georgina Lukács is taking her place. Please refer to New National Theatre News.
**Carlos Alvarez, who is originally to perform the role of Macbeth, is unable to perform on Monday 17th. Alternatively, Izumi Ryohei is taking her place. Please refer to New National Theatre News.

PERFORMANCES
 
January 2005 17
(Mon.)
20
(Thurs.)
23
(Sun.)
26
(Wed)
29
(Sat.)
2:00pm       ×  
3:00pm     ×   ×
6:30pm × ×      
Doors will open 45 minutes before the opening of the performance.
Approximate running time: 2 hours , 40 minutes with 1 intermission

ADVANCE TICKETS
  Available from Sunday 28 November , 2004 at 10:00am.
To order tickets, please call +81-3-5352-9999 (10:00am-6:00pm).
Internet ticket reservation available through the following Websites.(Japanese only)
http://t.pia.co.jp/
http://eee.eplus.co.jp/

TICKET PRICES (with tax)
Ranks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Z
Price(yen) 21,000 18,900 15,750 13,650 10,500 7,350 6,300 3,150 1,500
*Rank 8: Sold at the NNTT Box Office and all Ticket Pia outlets on the performance date only. Up to 2 tickets per person. No phone reservations. *Seat Z: Sold to students only at some Ticket Pia outlets on the day before the performance. Any tickets not sold by the performance date will be released to the general public at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets. One ticket per person. No phone reservations. Students must bring a valid student ID. *Same day student tickets (50% off Ranks 1 - 7): Sold at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets on the performance date. One ticket per person. No phone reservations. Students must bring a valid student ID.

*Opera House Ticket Prices & Seating Plan

The Innovative Work Directed by Noda Hideki Will Soon Be Repeated.
Eagerly Awaited Carlos Álvarez to Make His NNTT Debut in the Title Role

handbill [Macbeth] The stage director Noda Hideki, who is at the forefront of contemporary drama, is directing his first opera. His staging of Macbeth, which was prepared over a long period of time and displays his brilliant interpretation of the play, attracted keen attention from various circles and will soon be repeated.
Macbeth is the first Shakespearean play Verdi successfully adapted for opera. It is a monumental work in that he transcends the framework of traditional operatic forms, opening up a new path for opera as drama. Replete with music as gloomy and dramatically tense as the play written by Shakespeare, Macbeth is a serious work that profoundly portrays the personalities of Macbeth and his wife, who are both impelled by prophecies, ambitions, suspicions, and intrigues and driven into derangement and extreme emotions.
Noda's direction views the witches who prophesy the fate of Macbeth as the dead in the battlefield, and focuses on Macbeth, who cannot shake off his obsession with power, though he is frightened by the shadows of the dead hidden by prosperity. Noda develops the drama quickly with persuasiveness appropriate to the present circumstances where power is employed in the cause of liberation. The highlight of the play is the solemn and fantastic world created by crowds on the stage. Macbeth will be sung by Carlos Álvarez, a star baritone who has swept through the world's distinguished opera houses, including the Teatro alla Scala, and Lady Macbeth by Georgina Lukács. Both singers will lend exciting color to the tense drama over the crown.

Synopsis

The setting is 11th-century Scotland. In the woods, Macbeth and Banquo hear witches predict that Macbeth shall be King of Scotland and that Banquo shall be the father of kings. Persuaded by his ambitious wife, Macbeth murders Scottish King and is named King, but worrying about the prophecy on Banquo, he also plots to kill Banquo and his son. Banquo's son escapes and Macbeth is deranged by images of the dead. Meanwhile, together with Malcolm, son of the assassinated king, Macduff rises in revolt against Macbeth.

<Stage Photos (première in May 2004)>

<Conductor> <Production>
Riccardo Frizza Noda Hideki
Riccardo Frizza Noda Hideki
<Cast>
Carlos Alvarez Georgina Lukacs Osawa Ken Mizuguchi Satoshi
Carlos Álvarez Georgina Lukács Osawa Ken Mizuguchi Satoshi

Uchiyama Shingo Watanabe Atsuko Katayama Masashi Omori Kazuhide Shinoki Junichi
Uchiyama Shingo Watanabe Atsuko Katayama Masashi Omori Kazuhide Shinoki Junichi

Shioiri Koji Tomokiyo Takashi Takahara Yuki Naono Yoko
Shioiri Koji Tomokiyo Takashi Takahara Yuki Naono Yoko


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