MACBETH

In the organizer's words:

Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after William Shakespeare.

Melodrama in four acts - second version (1865)

recommended from the age of 16

In Italian language. With surtitles in German and English.

ABOUT THE WORK

Macbeth and his lady reveal their passionate and sinister feelings to us in the most beautiful tones. But behind this beauty lies an abyss, which Verdi reveals in one of the cruellest dramas in world literature. Macbeth and his lady commit one murder after another in order to attain power and, once they have achieved it, to preserve it. The unconditional nature of their desire lends their love a radicalism that was previously unthinkable in opera. "The subject of the opera is neither political nor religious: it is fantastic," wrote Verdi, bringing Shakespeare's original closer to a "romantic" reading. And indeed, the witches, ghosts and apparitions, the eeriness that dominates the singing and the scenic events, and therefore the entire world of this opera, can be understood as an external image for the inner states of its protagonists.

CAST

Musical direction Andrea Battistoni

Director Martin Kušej

Stage Martin Zehetgruber

Costumes Werner Fritz

Lighting Reinhard Traub

Choir Christoph Heil

Dramaturgy Sebastian Huber, Olaf A. Schmitt

Macbeth Amartuvshin Enkhbat(2026: Apr 07, 10, 13), Gerald Finley(2026: Jul 02, 05)

Banco Roberto Tagliavini

Lady Macbeth Saioa Hernández(2026: Apr 07, 10, 13), Asmik Grigorian(2026: Jul 02, 05)

Lady of Lady Macbeth Nontobeko Bhengu

Macduff SeokJong Baek

Malcolm Samuel Stopford(2026: Apr 07, 10, 13), Granit Musliu(2026: Jul 02, 05)

Doctor Martin Snell

Servant Christian Rieger

Murderer Christian Rieger

Appearance 1 Bruno Khouri

Appearance 2 Iana Aivazian

Appearance 3 Soloist(s) of the Tölzer Knabenchor

Bavarian State Orchestra

Bavarian State Opera Chorus

Price information:

Price varies depending on seat: 07.04, 10.04, 13.04: Prices K , € 132 /115 /95 /74 /52 /30 /14 /10 02.07, 05.07: Prices M , € 193 / 168 / 142 / 117 / 90 / 64 / 16 / 14