The murderers are dressed in business suits with ties, conspirators are catapulted up or down in lifts, the scenery is dominated by the office towers of Wall Street, or some other world financial ...

Breaking news to your phone. US mobile only. No password required. Broadway + NYC Broadway Off-Broadway Off-Off Broadway Cabaret Dance Opera Classical Music West End / UK In summer 2027, Giuseppe ...

Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth," the first of his three great Shakespeare operas, was an enormous success when new (1847) but fell out of fashion for the better part of a century. Its rejuvenation in the ...

The acclaimed Italian director, Emma Dante, presents a powerful, barbaric and at time frenzied Macbeth with great attention to detail. Staged and filmed in Italy's largest theatre, the Teatro Massimo ...

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist Francesco Maria Piave Verdi set out to ...

Verdi’s opera is not Shakespeare’s play set to music. It’s a different, but equally beautiful, tangle of colour and emotion, and its lead role is one I am still – after many years – getting to grips ...

Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" lives on the periphery of the standard repertoire. It's not really a rarity, but it's not something you see every day. In fact, it's not an opera that Michigan Opera Theatre ...

From the archive, 11 April 1847: The Observer reports from Florence where, at the Teatro della Pergola, Verdi’s opera Macbeth was premiered to an enthusiastic public The first representation of ...

In early 11th-century Scotland, at Macbeth’s castle. During a storm, in a Scottish wood, witches gather to hatch sinister plots. They hear Macbeth and Banquo approaching—Scottish nobles fighting for ...