
(MOVE BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE - VERDI GALLERY)
- Historical or fictional persons (HP) behind the opera characters
- Performers and collaborators of the first Premieres
- Performers most liked by Giuseppe Verdi and his wife Giuseppina Strepponi
- Greatest performers after Verdi's times
- Persons are sorted by roles and birth years.
- Please, add profiles only to the main page, "Verdi Gallery".
Macbeth
- Opera in 4 acts, Italian
- Libretto Francesco Maria Piave (with some modifications by Andrea Maffei)
- Based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare
- Opera was also given with the title: Sivardo il Sassone
- Time: 11th century. Place: Scotland.
- Premiere Teatro della Pergola, Florence, 14 March 1847
Macbeth meets the witches.
- Characters:
- Macbeth (Macbetto), baritone
- HP Macbeth, King of Scots
- Felice Varesi sang in the first premiere 14 March 1847
- Giovanni Guicciardi
- Ismaël sang in the first premiere of the revised, French version,19 April 1865
- Antonio Cotogni
- Emilio Barbieri
- Giuseppe Kaschmann
- Mattia Battistini
- Leonard Warren
- Tito Gobbi
- Paolo Silveri
- Giuseppe Taddei
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Piero Cappuccilli
- Usko Viitanen
- Renato Bruson
- Jorma Hynninen
- Leo Nucci
- Lady Macbeth, soprano
- HP Gruoch 'Lady MacBeth'
- Marianna Barbieri-Nini sang in the first premiere 14 March 1847
- Eugenia Tadolini
- Fanny Salvini-Donatelli
- Pauline Viardot
- Paulina Rivoli
- Gaetanina Brambilla Marulli
- Angiolina Bosio
- Teresa Stolz
- Cecilia Gagliardi
- Pauline Donalda
- Birgit Nilsson
- Maria Callas
- Leontyne Price
- Shirley Mae Verrett
- Renata Scotto
- Fiorenza Cossotto
- Aprile Millo
- Ángeles Blancas
- Banco (Banquo), bass
- HP Banquo, {FICT}
- Nicola Benedetti sang in the first premiere
- Antonio "Selva" Scremin
- Boris Christoff
- Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Martti Talvela
- Ruggero Raimondi
- Macduff, tenor
- HP "Macduff"
- Angelo Brunacci sang in the first premiere
- Gennaro Ricci
- Franco Corelli
- Carlo Bergonzi
- Carlo Cossutta
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Plácido Domingo
- Peter Lindroos
- José Carreras
- Roberto Alagna
- Malcolm, tenor
- HP Malcolm III, 'Canmore', King of Scots
- Francesco Rossi sang in the first premiere
- Carlo Baucardé
- Duncano (Duncan), King of Scotland Silent
- Fleanzio (Fleance), son of Banco, silent
- Macbeth (Macbetto), baritone
- Conductors:
- Adolphe Deloffre conducted in the first premiere 14 March 1847.
- Luigi Fabbrica
- Emanuele Muzio
- Franco Faccio
- Emil Albertovich Cooper
- Gabriele Santini
- Victor de Sabata
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Lamberto Gardelli
- Claudio Abbado
- Riccardo Muti
- Riccardo Chailly, OMRI in 1986
- Stage directors:
- Vladimir Rosing (in 1959 at Her Majesty's Theatre London with Emil Cooper and Pauline Donalda)
- Luchino Visconti (Teatro Nuovo Spoleto 1958 with Schippers)
- Giorgio Olimpio Guglielmo Strèhler (La Scala, Milan 1975-76)
- Luca Roncóni (Deutsche Oper Berlin 2 March 1980; at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia 19 Dec 1986; Live film 1987 with Zampieri, Bruson, Morris; Sinopoli)
- Giancarlo Del Monaco (Catania, Nice, Santander)
- David Radok
27. Macbeth / revised version
- French revised version, with additions including Lady Macbeth's aria La luce langue and removal of *Macbeth's final aria followed by his death off stage.
- Libretto translated from Italian by Charles Nuitter and Alexandre Beaumont
- Premiere Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, 21 April 1865
Macbeth. Illustration by Frédéric Lix from the premiere of the 1865 version at Lyrique Theatre, Paria.