[Met Performance] CID:270830



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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