Macbeth's guilty conscience prevents him from sleeping. In contrast to him, the large organ in the Meistersingerhalle spends most of its life sleeping - a situation that composer Stefan Johannes Hanke wants to remedy with a commissioned work for the Nuremberg State Philharmonic. The tone poem "Macbeth" by Richard Strauss and Verdi's ballet music, which is rarely played in operas, refer directly to Shakespeare's antiheroes. In his opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk", Dmitri Shostakovich placed the figure of Lady Macbeth in the present and turned the icon of unscrupulousness into a great, rebellious lover.

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Feb 28, 2025

Sleep no more · Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg

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Organ in Sleep no more by Hanke

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