Sleep no more

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 Macb...