Verdi’s Macbeth

“As part of Oliver Hall’s costumes, which subtly bind the medieval with the modern, beastly masks are donned by the chorus of witches, as are the nobles at the banquet celebrating Macbeth as newly crowned king, in an unsettling act that emphasises the festering circumstances.”

Paul Selar, Limelight ★★★★½

“This Macbeth is one of the outstanding operatic productions of the year… …costume designs for Lady Macbeth worked well – appropriately regal for the banquet scene and delicately fragile for the sleep-walking scene. The latter was at once highly dramatic and devastating as Brash traversed a laid-waste banquet table while singing one of the great Verdi arias with astonishing vocal colouring and assurance…”

Heather Leviston, Classic Melbourne

A psychological horror experience that puts the audience within arm’s reach of ambition, madness, and murder. Staged inside the historic Kensington Town Hall, the production transforms the venue into a decomposing dinner party - decadent, deranged, and deeply unsettling.

Director Kate Millett (OperaChaser Best Director 2024) leads a powerhouse creative team and cast, all of whom bring serious acclaim to the table. Millett’s vision for this Macbeth is intimate and unrelenting: “This is opera that doesn’t just touch you - it consumes you.”

With audience members seated mere metres from the action, this Macbeth strips away the polish and grandeur of traditional opera, revealing raw ambition, psychological fracture, and moral rot.

Kensington Town Hall | BK Opera

Costume Design

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave

Direction: Kate Millett

Conductor: Leonard Weiss

Repetiteur: Konrad Olszewski

Set Design: Max Bowyer

Lighting Design: Gabriel Bethune

Stage Management: Mia Stefani

Photography: Kate Cameron