Event Details
Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth "Live in HD": Free Pre-Lecture & $15 Castle Street Lunch available with RSVP!
The Metropolitan Opera & The Mahaiwe
Saturday January 12, 2008 / 1:30pmIndividual Tickets: $23 Adults/ $21 Seniors/$16 Children under 13
Approximate running time 2 hrs. 50 min. Sung in Italian, with English, German and Spanish subtitles.
Director Adrian Noble calls Macbeth, “the greatest story Verdi ever told.” The composer’s longstanding affinity for Shakespeare is explored in Noble’s powerful new production of this gripping work, conducted by James Levine. The ferocious couple is portrayed by baritone Željko Lucic in the towering title role and soprano Maria Guleghina as his ruthless wife. Rising star John Relyea and the magnificent René Pape share the role of the doomed Banquo. In later performances, Carlos Alvarez and Lado Ataneli sing the title role, and Andrea Gruber plays Lady Macbeth.
The Mahaiwe is offering a special LECTURE AND LUNCH prior to the event, with esteemed American composer and Juilliard School of Music professor Scott Eyerly (see bio below). 11AM lecture will take place at:
St James Episcopal Church
352 Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230
There is no limit on audience capacity at St. James. However we would appreciate your RSVP via email (laura@mahaiwe.org)
At 12pm (following the lecture)there will be a $15 plated lunch available at Castle Street Cafe.Seating is limited for the luncheon so please make your reservation as soon as possible. We will confirm your reservation based upon availability.
Bio on Lecturer SCOTT EYERLY
Scott Eyerly is a distinguished American composer who has taught at the Juilliard School of Music for over 20 years. A charismatic teacher, he has taught a wide range of subjects including music theory to dance students, music teachers and undergraduates and music theater including courses in Sondheim, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Rogers and Hammerstein. For the past four years he has taught a highly popular course in the Evening Division covering twelve of the operas being performed each season at the Metropolitan or New York City Operas. He also teaches music theory to the boys at the St Thomas Choir School.
His opera The House of the Seven Gables was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and was premiered in 2002. Additional works among many others include a grant from Chamber Music America to compose a sextet for the Hexagon ensemble, a commission from the New York Youth Symphony for Exultation Overture premiered at Carnegie Hall, from Philip Morris for a musical theater piece, On Blue Mountain, produced at Town Hall, from Glimmerglass Opera for a brass fanfare, from St Thomas Church for a Missa Brevis, and a commission for a set of cabaret songs from texts by members of the Algonquin Round Table..
Director Adrian Noble calls Macbeth, “the greatest story Verdi ever told.” The composer’s longstanding affinity for Shakespeare is explored in Noble’s powerful new production of this gripping work, conducted by James Levine. The ferocious couple is portrayed by baritone Željko Lucic in the towering title role and soprano Maria Guleghina as his ruthless wife. Rising star John Relyea and the magnificent René Pape share the role of the doomed Banquo. In later performances, Carlos Alvarez and Lado Ataneli sing the title role, and Andrea Gruber plays Lady Macbeth.
The Mahaiwe is offering a special LECTURE AND LUNCH prior to the event, with esteemed American composer and Juilliard School of Music professor Scott Eyerly (see bio below). 11AM lecture will take place at:
St James Episcopal Church
352 Main St
Great Barrington, MA 01230
There is no limit on audience capacity at St. James. However we would appreciate your RSVP via email (laura@mahaiwe.org)
At 12pm (following the lecture)there will be a $15 plated lunch available at Castle Street Cafe.Seating is limited for the luncheon so please make your reservation as soon as possible. We will confirm your reservation based upon availability.
Bio on Lecturer SCOTT EYERLY
Scott Eyerly is a distinguished American composer who has taught at the Juilliard School of Music for over 20 years. A charismatic teacher, he has taught a wide range of subjects including music theory to dance students, music teachers and undergraduates and music theater including courses in Sondheim, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Rogers and Hammerstein. For the past four years he has taught a highly popular course in the Evening Division covering twelve of the operas being performed each season at the Metropolitan or New York City Operas. He also teaches music theory to the boys at the St Thomas Choir School.
His opera The House of the Seven Gables was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and was premiered in 2002. Additional works among many others include a grant from Chamber Music America to compose a sextet for the Hexagon ensemble, a commission from the New York Youth Symphony for Exultation Overture premiered at Carnegie Hall, from Philip Morris for a musical theater piece, On Blue Mountain, produced at Town Hall, from Glimmerglass Opera for a brass fanfare, from St Thomas Church for a Missa Brevis, and a commission for a set of cabaret songs from texts by members of the Algonquin Round Table..