MSM Opera unearths Ernest Bloch's Macbeth
by Paul J. Pelkonen
The ever-searching and ever curious musical minds that program operas for graduate level performers at Manhattan School of Music have really dug up a doozy. On Wednesday night, MSM presented artistic director Dona D. Vaughan's staging of Macbeth, an innovative adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy by composer Ernst Bloch. This was the New York premiere of the opera in its original French text, and the first staging of the Bloch Macbeth in New York since 1973.
It was well worth the wait.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Uneasy lies the head...Composer Ernst Bloch, creator of Macbeth. Photo © G. Schirmer, image alteration by the author. |
It was well worth the wait.
