Riccardo Muti conducts Verdi's Macbeth

Eagerly awaited return of Maestro Riccardo Muti to the Teatro Regio
on the podium of the Theatre’s Orchestra and Chorus

Chiara Muti directs the new production of Verdi’s masterpiece 

 
Teatro Regio, Tuesday 24 February 2026 at 7:00 pm
Anteprima Giovani youth preview, Friday 20 February at 8:00 pm

With the support of

On Tuesday 24 February at 7:00 pm Maestro Riccardo Muti returns to the Teatro Regio on the podium of the Orchestra and Chorus to conduct Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi, a melodrama in four acts to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei, after the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare. It is a highly anticipated event: the Maestro’s fourth appearance at the Regio in five years, with one of the Verdi works that has most shaped his interpretive career. 

The new production is directed by Chiara Muti and features in the title role Luca Micheletti, a baritone and actor of extraordinary dramatic intensity, increasingly active in the Verdi repertoire. Alongside him, a superb cast: Lidia Fridman, a soprano with a singularly incisive voice and powerful stage magnetism, returning to the Regio after Un ballo in maschera in 2024, Giovanni Sala (back after Don Giovanni in 2022) and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo. Sets are by Alessandro Camera, costumes by Ursula Patzak, choreography by Simone Valastro and lighting by Vincent Longuemare. The Teatro Regio Chorus is prepared by chorus master Piero Monti. 
This new production is made possible thanks to the support of Reale Mutua.
The opera’s Young Preview — dedicated to audiences under 30 — is on Friday 20 February at 8:00 pm.

The Bard’s eternal themes, revisited by Verdi’s genius and interpreted by Muti

When Verdi set Shakespeare to music in 1847, he transformed theatrical matter into sound, giving the tragedy a new and visionary force that already foreshadows his later musical language. Macbeth is the darkest of them: a story of power and usurpation made physical and concrete, where blood and guilt spread until they overwhelm us, while the greed for evil — which so fascinated Verdi as a reader of Shakespeare — reveals its most extreme consequences. Riccardo Muti points to its hidden heart: “In Macbeth there is above all the voluptuousness of the throne, of the sceptre, and in Verdi’s opera everything is in the hands of the Lady, who holds Macbeth in her grasp… Each time I return to this work, I realise that one never finishes digging into its characters.” (from an interview by Antonio Gnoli for la Repubblica)

In Chiara Muti’s reading, Macbeth is the drama of antithesis 

Chiara Muti delves into the protagonists’ torments and into the darkest shade of “red”: that of the blood shed in the thirst for power, of guilt that cannot be washed away, of desire that turns into condemnation. “Macbeth is the drama of antithesis: in a world where ‘fair is foul, and foul is fair’ every value is overturned and the hero ends up generating his own demons. On stage we enter the eye of Macbeth, the world of the infertile couple he forms with Lady Macbeth, right up to the point where crime wipes out sleep, love and pity, leaving only the noise and fury of conscience,” the director says.

In anticipation of Macbeth 

On Tuesday 3 February at the Teatro Astra there will be a performance of Anatomia di un assassinio. Shakespeare incontra Verdi: concept and text adaptation by Chiara Muti, with Luca Micheletti and Chiara Muti, sound design by Raffaele Bassetti. A TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa production in collaboration with Teatro Regio Torino, as part of the initiatives accompanying the staging of Macbeth.

On Monday 16 February at 11:00 am in the Foyer del Toro of the Teatro Regio there will be a press conference to present the new production, with the participation of the principal artists. 

On Wednesday 18 February the opera will be presented to the public at 5:30 pm at the Piccolo Regio Puccini in a lecture-concert given by music historian and La Stampa journalist Paolo Gallarati. Admission is free. 

Macbeth will be on stage for six performances from 24 February to 7 March. 
 

Tickets and Information

Tickets are on sale at the Teatro Regio Box Office and online at www.teatroregio.torino.it. Box Office: Piazza Castello 215 - Turin | Tel. 011.8815.241/242 | biglietteria@teatroregio.torino.it. Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 11:00 am–7:00 pm; Sunday: 10:30 am–3:30 pm. Information and updates: www.teatroregio.torino.it