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# Aldeburgh, Snape Maltings, Macbeth - English Touring Opera, IOCO Kritik, 18.04.2019
- URL: https://www.ioco.de/aldeburgh-snape-maltings-macbeth-english-touring-opera-ioco-kritik-18-04-2019/
- Published: 2019-04-18T07:00:34.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-06T12:54:16.000Z
- Author: Redaktion
- Tags: Oper & Operette, wolfgang amadeus mozart, Pressemeldungen & Nachrichten, Kritiken, Mozart

![Aldeburgh Festival / Snape Maltings Concert Hall © Philip Vile](https://storage.ghost.io/c/38/f5/38f5739d-f8a2-4e7b-96ed-d56cfbedb61b/content/images/ioco-oper/mein-content/dateien/uploads/2017/11/1-aldeburgh-music-and-snape-maltings-concert-hall-c-philip-vileneu.jpg)

Aldeburgh Festival / Snape Maltings Concert Hall © Philip Vile

[Snape Maltings Aldeburgh Festival](https://snapemaltings.co.uk/season/aldeburgh-festival/?ref=ioco.de)

![ Benjamin Britten Gedenkmuschel am Meeresufer von Snape © IOCO](https://storage.ghost.io/c/38/f5/38f5739d-f8a2-4e7b-96ed-d56cfbedb61b/content/images/ioco-oper/mein-content/dateien/uploads/2019/04/benjamin-britten-gedenkmuschel-in-aldebro-neu.jpg "Benjamin Britten Gedenkmuschel am Meeresufer von Snape © IOCO")

Benjamin Britten Gedenkmuschel am Meeresufer von Snape © IOCO

**Snape Maltings** ist eine bedeutende Kulturstätte in Suffolk, England, in der Nähe der kleinen Orte **Snape** und **Aldeburgh** gelegen. Bereits vor 2000 errichteten die Römer erste Siedlungen in Snape und bauten Salzfertigungen. Snape und Aldeburgh erreichten durch auffällige kulturelle Aktivitäten überregionale Bedeutung. [**Benjamin Britten** (\*1913 - 1976)](https://ioco.de/2016/01/18/gelsenkirchen-musiktheater-im-revier-a-midsummer-nights-dream-von-benjamin-britten-ioco-kritik-15-01-2016/?ref=ioco.de) gründete dort 1948 das jährlich stattfindende international geschätzte **Aldeburgh Festival** und errichtete in der Folge Konzerthaus (Foto). Eine übergroße ins Meeresufer vor Snape errichtete Muschel erinnert auffällig an **Benjamin Britten**, den großen Sohn der Region Snape und Aldeburgh. Hier eine weitere **IOCO** Rezeption aus Snape Maltings, link: [***Dardanus*** von **Jean-Philippe Rameau**](https://ioco.de/2017/11/18/aldeburgh-snape-maltings-dardanus-by-jean-philippe-rameau-ioco-review-18-11-2017/?ref=ioco.de)

***IOCO*** \- Korrespondentin **Janet Banks** besuchte die **Macbeth** Produktion der **English Touring Opera** (see video) in der **Concert Hall** von **Snape Maltings:** Privat betriebene ***Touring Opera Companies*** sind erneut eine britische Besonderheit: im deutschen Sprachraum nahezu unbekannt, in England jedoch häufig anzutreffen.

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# ***Macbeth* \- Giuseppe Verdi**

 **Produziert von - English Touring Opera**

by **Janet Banks**

**English Touring Opera** was about halfway through touring the UK with three early works by great operatic composers, **Mozart’s *Idomeneo,*** **Rossini’s *Elizabeth I*** and **Verdi’s *Macbeth,*** when I witnessed this gripping production at **Snape Maltings,** home of the **Aldeburgh Festival.**

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**Tristan und Verdi's Macbeth | Production Trailer** Youtube Trailer English Touring Opera **\[ Mit erweitertem Datenschutz eingebettet \]**

**James Dacre’s** production was dramatically engrossing, hitting home time and again, largely thanks to excellent performances by the two lead singers, **Madeleine Pierard** as **Lady Macbeth** and **Grant Doyle** as ***Macbeth.*** **Pierard** had a strong stage presence and powerful body language – everything seemed more intense when she was on stage – and her full-throated soprano was more than a match for **Giuseppe Verdi’s** vocal acrobatics in Act I Scene 2\. Her restless writhings before her suicide in the final act made a powerful contrast to her aggressive confidence in the party which closes Act 2.

The scenes between **Pierard** and **Doyle** as **Macbeth** were particularly intense. **Doyle** brought a lurking sense of foreboding into his voice from early in the opera and his Act 4 Scene 3 final aria showed impressive dramatic range. Sung in English in a good translation by **Andrew Porter,** any words which were not audible (and they were very few) were still not lost, thanks to TV screens either side of the stage which relayed the libretto, plus the setting for each act.

![English Touring Opera / Machbeth © Richard Hubert Smith](https://storage.ghost.io/c/38/f5/38f5739d-f8a2-4e7b-96ed-d56cfbedb61b/content/images/ioco-oper/mein-content/dateien/uploads/2019/04/macbeth-_-foto-richard-hubert-smith-neu.jpg)

English Touring Opera / Machbeth © Richard Hubert Smith

Designer **Frankie Bradshaw’s** constumes set the production in the present day: ***Macbeth*** politician-like in suit and tie, **Lady Macbeth** either in silky night attire or a short, smart party dress, the rest of the male characters in military uniform or fatigues. Staging was bare but effective – a chaise longue doubling as a throne, concrete bunker-type walls for the castle, and a nice modern touch when ***Banquo’s*** assassins climb up to unplug a security camera before his murder. It’s always a challenge to know what to do with the witches, especially with their far from haunting music. However the green-clad nursing nuns (see foto above) with their **Florence Nightingale**\-like lamps and choreographed movements failed to spook me.

**Andrew Slater** was a deep-toned and noble ***Banquo*** and **Amar Muchhala** a moving **Macduff** in his beautiful lyric tenor aria lamenting his failure to protect his wife and children. There was much well-disciplined singing from the chorus, particularly in their a cappella chorale after ***Duncan’s*** murder.

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