The Sofia Opera opens the season with five premiere performances of “Macbeth” in five consecutive evenings: from the 25th of February till the 1st of March.
“Shakespeare is quite the challenge and when combined with Giuseppe Verdi’s pathos which gives an interesting musical form to everything Shakespeare writes, the challenge extends to our entire team”, Vera Petrova, the opera’s director, shared for “Bulgaria sutrin”.
In her words, Verdi’s operas are almost never on a small scale.
“Macbeth” mainly poses questions both from Shakespeare and Verdi’s perspectives: questions related to human life, why we are here, whether there is any meaning to life and if so, what it is. We’re not trying to answer these questions; we’re trying to present them to the audience in an unusual way while keeping the supernatural presence of witches, magical creatures and spirits”, Petrova revealed in front of Bulgaria ON AIR.
The opera’s director defined the role rehearsal process as long and complicated which the audience is going to see on stage.
“Once upon a time, such a title was rehearsed vocally for three months and after that, two or three more months of director’s rehearsals followed. Now, everything happens very fast. People are going to experience an opera thriller”, Petrova assured.