Macbeth

Synopsis: Live recording of Verdi’s Macbeth from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Renata Scotto and Sherill Milnes are the Macbeths. James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Peter Allen is the broadcast announcer.
Series: Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network
Language: Italian (Standard)
Country: United States
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 18 Dec 1982 at 14:00 (Channel: ABC)
Duration: 207 (49 synopses and features); 158 (opera)

Notes: The opera may be streamed by US subscribers to Sirius Satellite Radio http://www.sirius.com/siriusinternetradio. Available for downloading or streaming at http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm (2008).
Reviews: Henahan, Donald, The New York Times (October 29, 2008). Henahan writes "The quicker said, the better: Peter Hall’s ‘Macbeth’ may just be the worst new production to struggle onto the the Metropolitan Opera’s stage in modern history. That claim, admittedly, covers a lot of territory and could be disputed by oldtimers, but it is not made lightly. What Mr. Hall and John Bury, who designed the sets and costumes, could have been thinking of when they devised this lumpish and often ludicrous staging of Verdi’s first Shakespeare opera last night is difficult to imagine".

British Universities Film & Video Council