Overview
- The Met opened its 141st season with Proske’s Macbeth, which premiered Tuesday, Sept. 22, and the production will run through October 20.
- Proske leads a high-profile creative team including set designer Jon Bausor, costume designer Montana Levi Blanco, lighting designer Adam Silverman, choreographer Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson, action director Ran Arthur Braun, and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with several collaborators making their Met debuts.
- The staging foregrounds large-scale technical spectacle, opening with a sparks-filled fight sequence, a rotating set and lavish Elizabethan-style costumes, some of which were repurposed from the Met’s storage.
- Early reviews praised Quinn Kelsey’s vocally commanding Macbeth and strong supporting singing while critiquing a lack of onstage chemistry with Lise Davidsen, occasional balance issues when the orchestra overpowered singers, and moments of hesitant stage presence.
- The opening-night gala and the choice of a sweeping Verdi title were read as an institutional signal that the Met is moving back toward traditional, visually spectacular programming before planned contemporary premieres in the fall.