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Opera

Met Opera Live's Macbeth: Netrebko's singing stirred almost as much as her décolletage

Plus: Michael Tanner catches two wretched Figaros - one that makes you not care and another that distracts

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

Macbeth

Met Opera Live

Le nozze di Figaro

Met Opera Live

The Marriage of Figaro

English National Opera, in rep until 23 November

This season of live Met relays got off to a most impressive start, with an electrifying account of Verdi’s tenth opera and first really great, though uneven piece, Macbetto (as I think it should be called; that’s what the central figure is called throughout). Fabio Luisi showed that he is far more at home conducting Verdi than Wagner — though his Bruckner performances are also magnificent.

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