27 May 2005

Fisting Macbeth in Frankfurt

It doesn’t matter who sings what. At some point, someone’s fist is up someone else’s rectum. Some of us were not even sure this was anatomically possible until the nihilistic Catalan director Calixto Bieito took up opera. Now it’s routine.


Zeljko Lucic as Macbeth (Photo: Jörg Landsberg)

Macbeth, Frankfurt Opera

By Shirley Apthorp [Financial Times, 27 May 05]

It doesn't matter who sings what. At some point, someone's fist is up someone else's rectum. Some of us were not even sure this was anatomically possible until the nihilistic Catalan director Calixto Bieito took up opera. Now it's routine.

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