New Zealand Opera’s new and very modern production of Verdi’s Macbeth explores contemporary issues of power and gender and the derangement and paranoia of the 21st-century human psyche.
“The look and tone evoke an Italian horror movie,” says NZ Opera’s general director, Thomas de Mallet Burgess, “abstract and cinematic and rife with symbolism.”
The direction and design of this Macbeth are by English artist Netia Jones, acclaimed by the Observer as “the most imaginative director of opera working in Britain today”.
Speaking to the during rehearsals in Auckland, Jones is
