For the first time in nearly 20 years the company presented Verdi's breakthrough early masterpiece, "Macbeth," in a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful production by the English director Adrian Noble, making his Met debut.
(Allan Kozinn) ★ 'MACBETH' (Saturday) In his Met debut, the English director Adrian Noble has created a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful new production of "Macbeth," Verdi's breakthrough early masterpiece.
(Bernard Holland) ★ 'MACBETH' (Friday and Tuesday) In his Met debut the English director Adrian Noble has created a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful new production of "Macbeth," Verdi's breakthrough early masterpiece, last seen at the house in 1988.
Here Miss Mikami's interpretation was more stylistically conventional, and in many ways more effective.
There's his masterful, stylistically complex writing: he can wield the second person as an effective narrative tool, then engage the royal "we" as a gentle didactic, all in the space of a page.
It is a strange, and strangely effective ad that Mr. Schwartz described as "very avant-garde" and stylistically close to a popular variety show of the time, "Laugh-In".
His tone seems the most fitting and effective for this work but since everyone is at odds with everyone else stylistically, one can't be sure.
But stylistically he clashed".
Stylistically, they are antithetical.
