Macbeth

Fusing Shakespeares tragedy with the Verdi opera Schroeters Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with several electronic cameras As Schroeter would recall I arranged the Verdi music for a quartet of violin accordion piano and oboe but modeled the rhythms on Argentinian tangos and boleros The actors sang with horrifying shrill voices The use of video allowed me to produce extraordinary colors Of all my films Macbeth was most unwelcome Audiences dont like their Shakespeare to be presented in this way but I do not differentiate between kitsch and culture MoMA