After receiving rave reviews in 2011 for his exciting direction and his almost experimental rendering of Verdi’s score, Pappano once again takes up the baton with an impeccable cast.

His whole life, Verdi was obsessed with Shakespeare. But his first lyrical encounter with the English playwright was set on the bloody
stage of Macbeth. And, only five years after Nabucco, he made a major step forward in his mastery of lyrical drama. Desire, violence,
solitude, death, lightning tearing the night asunder, the shaking of timbers, the twisting of ropes: everything intermingles and plunges the soul of Macbeth into the abyss. For he only follows the one who supports, drives, governs him – his wife, Lady Macbeth. This terrifying thriller translates into searing moments, from the anguish of Macbeth and his wife after Duncan’s murder to the apparition of Banquo’s ghost and the great hallucination scene in which Lady Macbeth, falling prey to her demons, plunges into an obscure surrealistic world.