Drawing on Han dynasty dress and burial imagery, this design for Verdi’s Macbeth explores how individuals are consumed by the machinery of history. Within an opened tomb, ghosts assume identities through costume and relinquish them in death. Scale armour, jade burial suits, and binding red threads embody the tension between the pursuit of power and the loss of self. Even crowned, they are but foam on the tide of history.

Costume Design & Creative Direction: Chia-Sheng Huang
Photography: Will Liu
Lighting: Zi-Wen, Wang