JamesDacre

Press

• Verdi Macbeth

  English Touring Opera

  Apr 2019

  • The action moves swiftly and Dacre knows exactly when to treat the text literally and when to take an imaginative step sideways

    • Nick Kimberley, The Evening Standard
    • 11 March 2019

  • A brilliant, formidable new production by James Dacre of Verdi’s Macbeth, that hauls the piece into the present day… one of ETO’s finest recent achievements,

    • Tim Ashley, The Guardian
    • 10 March 2019

  • This tightly focused, updated version of Verdi’s opera hits the spot with surgical accuracy and brings immediacy to the drama.

    • Richard Fairman, The Financial Times
    • 11 March 2019

  • Strong and characterful playing that catches the music’s casual violence and dread as much as the rarer passages of tenderness.

    • Peter Reed, Classical Source
    • 09 March 2019

  • Macbeth can be a director’s playground and James Dacre takes full advantage of the opportunities here and really succeeded though-out in his rigid focus on natural and organic reactions in his cast… This really was a company achievement that showed ETO at its best.

    • Dominic Lowe, Bachtrack
    • 11 March 2019