According to the article, <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/31/ecb7-j31.html" author="" source="">Verdi’s <cite>Macbeth</cite> at La Scala in Milan: The opera of the year—an inspirational experience for millions of viewers</a> , the Opera is made for viewing via video: <bq>Even more significant is the fact that the director employed pioneering multimedia technology to bring the topicality of Verdi’s Macbeth to life and turn it into an inspiring experience for millions via cinema and television outlets.</bq> In fact, they claim that video is <i>better</i>: <bq>Only the “distant” audience is up close when Lady Macbeth celebrates her successful murder plot with a vulgar jig in a lift, or when she sneeringly looks down on those assembled at the bottom from a dizzy height. The audience at La Scala in Milan, on the other hand is restricted to what they can see from their seats.</bq> The whole show is available from Arte here, <a href="https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/104870-001-A/giuseppe-verdi-macbeth/">Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth: Saisoneröffnung der Mailänder Scala</a> (German and French). <img src="{att_link}screen_shot_2022-02-25_at_21.58.23_1.jpg" href="{att_link}screen_shot_2022-02-25_at_21.58.23_1.jpg" align="none" scale="25%">