Verdi: Macbeth Blu-ray (The Royal Opera)Phyllida Lloyd's production of Verdi's Macbeth for The Royal Opera in Blu ray is a production defined by colours black, red, cream and gold. Verdi's sturdy setting of Shakespeare's Scottish play is conducted by the superb Antonio Pappano. The characters go in and out of resembling Gothic fresco, being manipulated by a pack of scarlet turbaned witches. Simon Keenlyside plays a strong and towering Macbeth with Liudmyla Monastyrska as his Lady. See our

Agnès: Barbara Hannigan

Picture: 16:9

The Duke of Courland: Gary Avis

Sound Design: Chris Ekers

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Sugar Plum Fairy: Miyako Yoshida

Music: Léo Delibes

Hansel and Gretel - Evening Hymn: Diana Damrau and Angelika Kirchschlager – Colin Davis

Costume Designs: Moritz Junge

and the high-quality film-work puts us right at the heart of the action

The sweeping theme of the rise and fall of empires runs throughout Les Troyens

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