Macbeth (album)
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Macbeth is a Laibach
album released in 1990. Like Baptism
it is the soundtrack to a play, this time Shakespeare's Macbeth
. The music was originally written for a staging of Macbeth by Wilfried Minks at Deutsches Schauspielhaus
in Hamburg
, Germany
, in 1987. Laibach as a band were also included in the staging.
Laibach (band)
Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia . Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984...
album released in 1990. Like Baptism
Baptism (Laibach album)
Baptism was the third album by Laibach. It is the soundtrack to the Neue Slowenische Kunst production of the same name...
it is the soundtrack to a play, this time Shakespeare's Macbeth
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
. The music was originally written for a staging of Macbeth by Wilfried Minks at Deutsches Schauspielhaus
Deutsches Schauspielhaus
The Deutsches Schauspielhaus is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany. With a capacity for 1192 spectators, it places it as Germany's largest theatre...
in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, in 1987. Laibach as a band were also included in the staging.
Track listing
- "Preludium"
- "Agnus Dei (Acropolis)"
- "Wutach Schlucht"
- "Die Zeit"
- "Ohne Geld"
- "U.S.A."
- "10.5.1941"
- "Expectans Expectavos"
- "Coincidentia Oppositorum"
- "Wolfis"
- "Agnus Dei (Exil und Tod)"