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Macbeth
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, December 7, 1982
Debut : Olivia Stapp
Macbeth (48)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave/Andrea Maffei
- Macbeth
- Louis Quilico
- Lady Macbeth
- Olivia Stapp [Debut]
- Banquo
- Paul Plishka
- Macduff
- Jeffrey Stamm
- Malcolm
- John Gilmore
- Lady-in-Attendance
- Karen Bureau
- Physician
- Richard Vernon
- Manservant
- Talmage Harper
- Duncan
- Andrew Murphy
- Fleance
- Peter McCallum
- Murderer
- James Courtney
- Herald
- James Brewer
- Hecate
- Christina Kumi Kimball
- Warrior
- Russell Christopher
- Bloody Child
- Elyssa Lindner
- Crowned Child
- Suzanne Der Derian
- Spirit
- Jean Anderson
- Conductor
- James Levine
Review 1:
Peter G. Davis in New York Magazine
By now, the Metropolitan Opera had reached the midway point in ?Macbeth,? so I dropped by to see how a new cast was coping with Peter Hall's production, a peculiar concept that succeeds in turning Verdi's tragedy into an uproarious comic opera. Amid the hilarious goings- on, Louis Quilico sang presentably if stolidly as Macbeth, and I noticed many felicitous details in James Levine's conducting that I had missed the first time around. Most of the interest centered on Olivia Stapp in her Met debut as Lady Macbeth. She played the sleepwalking scene as though afflicted with a severe backache, and sang like so many pushed-up mezzos, with strong top notes and little or no support in the lower register of her voice. On the whole, Stapp seems to be a useful pinch- hit performer, but a singer of limited imagination and mediocre vocal quality.
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Met careers
- James Levine [Conductor]
- Louis Quilico [Macbeth]
- Olivia Stapp [Lady Macbeth]
- Paul Plishka [Banquo]
- Jeffrey Stamm [Macduff]
- John Gilmore [Malcolm]
- Karen Bureau [Lady-in-Attendance]
- Richard Vernon [Physician]
- Talmage Harper [Manservant]
- Andrew Murphy [Duncan]
- Peter McCallum [Fleance]
- James Courtney [Murderer]
- James Brewer [Herald]
- Christina Kumi Kimball [Hecate]
- Russell Christopher [Warrior]
- Elyssa Lindner [Bloody Child]
- Suzanne Der Derian [Crowned Child]
- Jean Anderson [Spirit]