Verdi’s Macbeth: “La luce langue” (Lise Davidsen)

Lise Davidsen sings an excerpt from Lady Macbeth’s Act II aria in the final dress rehearsal. Production: Louisa Proske. Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin. 2026–27 season. Verdi’s opera is a powerful musical interpretation of Shakespeare’s timeless drama of ambition and its personal cost. Raising questions of fate, superstition, and power, it marks an important step on the composer’s path from his more conventional earlier efforts to the integrated musical dramas of his mature years. The chilling subject matter drove Verdi to compose one of his most charged, viscerally gripping scores, with the composer insisting that the drama was not served by purely beautiful lyricism. Buy tickets at the box office, on the Met Opera app, or at metopera.org.