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Macbeth

9.0 133 mins 1987
Director(s): Claude d'Anna

Release Date: 17 Fri, Apr 1987

This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès d'estime but falls short in the cinematic arena. Shirley Verrett stars as the murderous and ambitious Lady Macbeth, Leo Nucci co-stars as her similarly ambitious but slightly more scrupulous husband, who has the good grace to feel some horror at his deeds before he does them. The entire opera was filmed inside a Belgian castle, and some of the smaller parts are obviously lip-synched to pre-recorded music.

Casts of Macbeth

Shirley Verrett

as Lady Macbeth

Leo Nucci

as Macbeth

Samuel Ramey

as Banco (voice)

Johan Leysen

as Banco

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