In the organizer's words:

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei after William Shakespeare In Italian with German surtitles

Macbeth has achieved a great deal. He is respected as a general. But witches prophesy greater things for him and awaken his greed. With the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth seizes power. Spurred on by his power-hungry wife, he sets in motion a cruel spiral of violence and crime.

What began in blood ends in blood: Lady Macbeth dies in madness, Macbeth is killed in a duel. The story of the rise and fall of two men of power who are fatefully chained together is exemplary of a degenerate political society that has lost its utopia.

Close to his great role model Shakespeare, Giuseppe Verdi created his most unconventional opera with Macbeth , in which music and drama are particularly closely intertwined. The result is a night-black operatic thriller of abysmal depth.

"So far have I climbed in blood
That I must wade on
My way back as bad as the way to the end."

Shakespeare / Heiner Müller