Verdi's opera is every bit as dark and bloody as Shakespeare's drama on which it was based. It is true to the original play in most details of plot and character, yet it differs in significant ...

The Atlanta Opera’s staging of Verdi’s “Macbeth” is a riveting work of operatic theater, magnificently sung and vividly acted. This new production, which presents its remaining performances Friday and ...

The great operatic masterpiece, MACBETH will be presented by Guild Opera Company on Friday April 25th and Saturday April 26th at 7:30 PM at River of the Valley in Canoga Park. MACBETH was written by ...

Because of an overloaded schedule, I caught the final dress rehearsal of Opera Orlando’s “Macbeth” on Wednesday instead of attending opening night. And unlike Shakespeare’s “Weird Sisters,” I cannot ...

You get only one chance to make a first impression, and the first sight of Boston Lyric Opera’s recent “Macbeth” was a head-scratcher. The curtain rose to reveal a full stage, the BLO chorus dressed ...

It can be interesting to re-visit a production that you’ve seen before, let alone one you’ve actually put pen to paper about. Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Macbeth was last seen in 2006 and my review ...

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.” The opening words of Macbeth’s famous soliloquy come to life this weekend as three performances of a combined opera, ballet and classical music production based ...

Harris' wife-who-would-be-queen is an unstoppable force, her voice soaring with the relentless zeal and appetite of this starkly driven creature for power. Verdi’s Macbeth, which opens Utah Opera’s ...

The other big idea here is the witches. Verdi expands Shakespeare’s three witches to a whole choir. Lloyd extends that idea further by having the witches behind the scenes at all times, delivering ...

Giuseppe Verdi wrote three operas based on Shakespearean themes. Two of them, “Otello” and “Falstaff,” are undisputed masterpieces, composed at the end of his career. “Macbeth,” which came much ...

The 32-year old Verdi was taking a risk when he wrote Macbeth for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in 1846. All of his operas until then had been grounded in fact or history, and indulging in the ...