Macbeth
Giuseppe VerdiAPRIL 28, 30, MAY 6, 12, 14, 17, AND 20, 2023
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Performance time is approximately two hours and 45 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission
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This brand-new production from Sir David McVicar is the must-see work of the season.
Vaunting ambition, a thirst for power, and bone-chilling violence collide as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies is given the operatic treatment by one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most thrilling scores. Internationally acclaimed conductor Speranza Scappucci returns to lead the COC Orchestra.
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS
Conductor: Speranza Scappucci
Assistant Conductor: Derek Bate
Director: Sir David McVicar
Assistant Director: Andrew Adridge
Set Designer: John Macfarlane
Costume Designer: Moritz Junge
Lighting Designer: David Finn
Choreographer: Andrew George
Revival Choreographer: Julia Aplin
Fight Director: Nick Sandys
Price Family Chorus Master: Sandra Horst
Stage Manager: Jenifer Kowal
Macbeth: Quinn Kelsey
Lady Macbeth: Alexandrina Pendatchanska (April 28, 30, May 6, and 12), Liudmyla Monastyrska (May 14, 17, and 20)
Banquo: Önay Köse
Macduff: Matthew Cairns
Malcolm: Adam Luther
Lady-in-waiting: Tracy Cantin
A Doctor: Vartan Gabrielian
Murderer: Clarence Frazer
Fleance: Roland Piers
Duncan: Jim Vanderlip
First Apparition: Giles Tomkins
Second Apparition: Charlotte Siegel
Third Apparition: Midori Marsh
With the COC Orchestra and Chorus
A New Canadian Opera Company production
Co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago
Production Sponsor: 
Sandra Horst and the COC Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim & Frances Price
The COC Orchestra is generously sponsored, in part, by W. Bruce C. Bailey, in honour of Christie Darville, COC Deputy General Director, and Johannes Debus, COC Music Director, and in part by The Schulich Foundation
SYNOPSIS IN A MINUTE
Spurred on by the witches’ prophecies and an ambitious wife, Macbeth removes all in his path as he reaches for the heights of power. He finds only a hollow victory and death.
Full Synopsis coming soon.
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CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS
Conductor: Speranza Scappucci
Assistant Conductor: Derek Bate
Director: Sir David McVicar
Assistant Director: Andrew Adridge
Set Designer: John Macfarlane
Costume Designer: Moritz Junge
Lighting Designer: David Finn
Choreographer: Andrew George
Revival Choreographer: Julia Aplin
Fight Director: Nick Sandys
Price Family Chorus Master: Sandra Horst
Stage Manager: Jenifer Kowal
Macbeth: Quinn Kelsey
Lady Macbeth: Alexandrina Pendatchanska (April 28, 30, May 6, and 12), Liudmyla Monastyrska (May 14, 17, and 20)
Banquo: Önay Köse
Macduff: Matthew Cairns
Malcolm: Adam Luther
Lady-in-waiting: Tracy Cantin
A Doctor: Vartan Gabrielian
Murderer: Clarence Frazer
Fleance: Roland Piers
Duncan: Jim Vanderlip
First Apparition: Giles Tomkins
Second Apparition: Charlotte Siegel
Third Apparition: Midori Marsh
With the COC Orchestra and Chorus
A New Canadian Opera Company production
Co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago
Production Sponsor:
Sandra Horst and the COC Chorus are generously underwritten by Tim & Frances Price
The COC Orchestra is generously sponsored, in part, by W. Bruce C. Bailey, in honour of Christie Darville, COC Deputy General Director, and Johannes Debus, COC Music Director, and in part by The Schulich Foundation -
SYNOPSIS IN A MINUTE
Spurred on by the witches’ prophecies and an ambitious wife, Macbeth removes all in his path as he reaches for the heights of power. He finds only a hollow victory and death.
Full Synopsis coming soon. -
2022/2023 season creative: BT/A
