Macbeth

Alternative title: Royal Opera Verdi Festival: Macbeth
Synopsis: Live recording of Verdi’s opera with Anthony Michaels-Moore and Georgina Lukacs as the Macbeths. Edward Downes conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Language: Italian (Standard)
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 5 Jul 1997 at 19:55 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 165 mins

History: The production was broadcast in two parts - Acts I & II 19.55-21:20 and Acts 3&4 21:40-23.00. The interval item is THE THREE MACBETHS (catalogued separately) in which Tom Rosenthal looks at the differences between the music and librettos in the version of Macbeth which Verdi wrote in 1847 (this version) and in the 1865 Paris version.

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