Product Description MacBeth signifies the beginning of Verdi's lifelong preoccupation with William Shakespeare. Verdi focuses the work primarily on three leading protagonists: MacBeth, Lady MacBeth, and the prophecies of the witches. Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts a powerful interpretation of the score with Renato Bruson and Mara Zampieri in the leading roles. Review Taken on its own terms, as an Italian opera of the mid-19th century, Macbeth stands out. It is a powerful look at ambition, violence, remorse, the dark doings of witches, and the spooky torments of a guilty conscience. The late Giuseppe Sinopoli conducted vigorously, and his numerous fans will specially treasure this recording, which focuses its cameras on him frequently. Renata Bruson and Maria Zampieri are both at home in their roles and they exult in the opera's many opportunities for melodrama. There is not much subtlety in this production, but that is true to the spirit of the opera. --Joe McLellan, Amazon.com, ISBN13: B001PSVHJY ISBN10: B001PSVHJY Material Type: dvdProduct Description MacBeth signifies the beginning of Verdi's lifelong preoccupation with William Shakespeare. Verdi focuses the work primarily on three leading protagonists: MacBeth, Lady MacBeth, and the prophecies of the witches. Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts a powerful interpretation of the score with Renato Bruson and Mara Zampieri in the leading roles. Review Taken on its own terms, as an Italian opera of the mid-19th century, Macbeth stands out. It is a powerful look at ambition, violence, remorse, the dark doings of witches, and the spooky torments of a guilty conscience. The late Giuseppe Sinopoli conducted vigorously, and his numerous fans will specially treasure this recording, which focuses its cameras on him frequently. Renata Bruson and Maria Zampieri are both at home in their roles and they exult in the opera's many opportunities for melodrama. There is not much subtlety in this production, but that is true to the spirit of the opera. --Joe McLellan, Amazon.com, ISBN13: B001PSVHJY ISBN10: B001PSVHJY Material Type: dvd , ISBN13: B001PSVHJY ISBN10: B001PSVHJY Material Type: dvd