Verdi's operatic version of Shakespeare's play, to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave , in a new production by Graham Vick. The performance opened the season at La Scala, Milan, earlier this month.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alia Scala, conductor Riccardo Muti
Acts 1 and 2 8.20 Directing
Verdi Daniel Snowman considers changing styles of Verdi production from the composer's own time to the present and talks to directors David Pountney and Elijah Moshinsky and music historian Roger Parker about the best and worst ways of staging the operas of Verdi.
8.40 Acts 3 and 4