Preludio, “Che faceste…Giorno non vidi mai” (9:55)

Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave

Charlene Canty, Zuly Inirio,
& Timothi Williams (Witches)
Joshua Jeremiah (Macbeth)
Hidenori Inoue (Banco)

Frances Rabalais, director
Maria Sensi Sellner, conductor/producer
Damian Dominguez, costume design
Annmarie Duggan, lighting design

Performed May 18, 2022 
during the Opera America national conference

Our 10th anniversary revisit of Verdi’s Macbeht was an “essentialist” production with an ensemble cast of 12 taking on multiple roles à la Shakespeare, and new chamber orchestration for 14 players by Robert Frankenberry.