Third World Bunfight - Brett Bailey
Macbeth
by Giuseppe Verdi
Over the last twenty years, more people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo than lost their lives in World War Two. The South African Third World Bunfight theatre company and the director Brett Bailey set Verdi’s opera in the Congo’s eastern provinces in the midst of civil war. The core themes running through the work (both Shakespeare's and Verdi’s)—greed, tyranny and guilt—acquire a new profundity in this dramatic context.
When General Macbeth and his ambitious wife murder the legitimate king, a host of misfortunes befall the nation: a national divide, betrayals on both sides, a ruthless regime, extreme violence and atrocities, ‘blood’ diamonds. The Belgian composer Fabrizio Cassol rewrote Verdi’s score, adapting it for twelve musicians and ten opera singers. Alongside them on stage, the Balkan No Borders Orchestra under the baton of the Serbian conductor, Premil Petrovic.
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Duration 100'
Megaron - The Athens Concert Hall (Alexandra Trianti Hall)
- 22/07 until 23/07/2016 at 21:00
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