Message from Felicia Moore:
I’m pretty shocked this is happening but I am now taking over the full run of Marie-Ève Signeyrole’s new production of Macbeth here at @deutscheoperberlin with Maestro Enrique Mazzola at the podium!!
I have such a history with the Lady herself. I first performed her monologue at Juilliard seven years ago, and then worked on a pastiche of her most famous lines with our beloved Eve Shapiro, which she called Lady Macbeth’s Nightmare. A few years later I learned the role for @heartbeat_opera’s Lady M, which was cancelled because of COVID- although we went on to do online performances at the start of the pandemic. All of this to say…I’ve been ACHING to perform this role. It’s a thrill and a challenge to find my way through this character. And I love knowing that Verdi did not want or care for a beautiful voice in this role. With so many roles being about desirability and purity (oh hiiiii patriarchy), it’s a relief to find ambition and the limits of hunger at the heart of Lady Macbeth.
… I hope you come see our show if you are in the Berlin area— but please know there are major content warnings surrounding the death of a child, infertility and stillbirth, as well as the grief that follows in this production. Please message me if you want to know more specifics so you can have a safer time at the theater. Take care of yourselves xo
Ms Moore replaces Anastasia Bartoli.
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