Verdi's opera on Shakespeare's dock tragedy. From the English National Opera on the last night of the current season, the final performance under the artistic triumvirate of Peter
Jonas, David Pountney and Mark Elder.
Sung in English. Presented by Andrew Lyle. (bar) (sop) (bass) (tenor)(tenor) (sop) (bass) (bass) (tenor)
LILY RIDETT. LISA JANE WHITE
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder
Act
7.20 James Naughtie talks to producer David Pountney and conductor Mark Elder about tonight's production.
7.35 Act
8.10 To the departed, power means nothing;
Sing them a "requiem bid them farewell
(Macbeth, Act 1)
Over the past eight years, the Jonas-Pountney-Elder team has given English National Opera a strong and individual voice in the operatic world. Their ideas, set out in their book Power
House, have resulted in outstanding productions like Rusalka, Xerxes and Lady Macbeth ofMtsensk. Rodney Milnes , Editor of Opera magazine, Gina Thomas , cultural correspondent of the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, and theatre critic
Michael Billington consider the outgoing trio's achievements.
8.30 Acts 3 and 4 (Given in association with the Mercer's Company)