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DESCRIPTION:Sep 22 - Oct 20\, 2026\nIf Rigoletto is your bread and butter\,
  who needs three witches to predict that Macbeth’s bound to be your jam?
  Count on Quinn Kelsey’s eponymous Highland regicide to invest the Metro
 politan Opera’s season-opening new production of Verdi’s Shakespeare a
 daptation with frightening authority. By contrast\, Lise Davidsen’s Lady
  Macbeth is the thrilling wild card. In heroic Wagner and Richard Strauss\
 , her timbre\, temperament\, and the sheer immensity of her soprano put he
 r in a league of her own. Diva vehicles of Verdi and Puccini are a less ob
 vious fit\, but she craves them\, no one tells her no\, and the fans eat i
 t up when she exercises her prerogatives. Freddie De Tommaso appears as Ma
 cduff\, whose wife and children Scotland’s usurper has slaughtered while
  their father recruits allies in England. The role is brief but his heartb
 reak\, outrage\, and steely determination coalesce in an aria that ranks w
 ith the glories of Verdi’s tenor repertoire. The director is Louisa Pros
 ke\, who a decade ago was making waves as the cofounder of Heartbeat Opera
 \, a shoestring outfit that prided itself on “doing what the Met can’t
  do.” Astonishingly\, Heartbeat’s heartbeat lay in musical invention\,
  distilling symphonic orchestrations to arrangements for WTF one-of-a-kind
  chamber combos numbering in the single digits. Theatrically\, though\, He
 artbeat subscribed to the same no-holds-barred\, smash-the-idols lingua fr
 anca that’s in vogue everywhere. Proske’s been out on her own for seve
 ral seasons now. A rising star in the majors\, she should feel quite at ea
 se in her Met debut\, though Yannick Nézet-Séguin will\, of course\, be 
 playing Verdi’s pages as he wrote them.
LOCATION:Metropolitan Opera\, 30 Lincoln Center Plaza\, New York\, NY 10023
 \, USA
SUMMARY:Macbeth\, by Giuseppe Verdi
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