Verdi and the two Macbeths
Lecture & Opera Recital
with
Will Crutchfield
and
Alexandra Loutsion
In the second event of the series organized in collaboration with Teatro Nuovo, Will Crutchfield, General Director, presents the score and its history, assisted by soprano Alexandra Loutsion, who will perform the role of Lady Macbeth with Teatro Nuovo in July.
Verdi composed his first Shakespearean drama in 1847, and dedicated the score to his benefactor Antonio Barezzi, calling it “the opera I love in preference to all my others.” Nearly two decades later, in a transformed musical climate, he revised the opera for Paris, producing the score most of us know today. But the bold violence of the first Macbeth has a force all its own. Teatro Nuovo will revive the earlier opera this summer, for the first time in New York since the 19th century.
Teatro Nuovo – Italian for “new theater” – is a young organization devoted to cutting-edge interpretation of classic Italian opera. Since its debut in 2018 Teatro Nuovo has presented eleven operas by Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Ricci, and Mayr, culminating in the modern premiere of Carolina Uccelli’s Anna di Resburgo, which made the New York Times list of the 20 best Classical events for the year.
Will Crutchfield, Teatro Nuovo’s General Director, has conducted opera throughout the U.S. and abroad, with appearances at the Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro), Washington National Opera, the Polish National Opera, the Opera de Colombia, Minnesota Opera, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and many others. Concurrently he has been a leading scholar of 19th-century opera, publishing with The Grove Dictionaries of Music, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Opera News, and multiple academic journals. His main activity throughout, however, has centered on the training of young singers, first at the Caramoor International Music Festival and since 2018 at Teatro Nuovo.
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