No opera buff would think of setting Verdi’s Macbeth in the Congo. Would they? Which is fine because, as it happens, Brett Bailey is no opera buff. The acclaimed South African theatre director and his ...

State Opera South Australia has today announced that it will present Giuseppe Verdi's adaptation of Shakespeare's classic Macbeth at Her Majesty's Theatre in September this year. This co-production ...

Lise Davidsen and Quinn Kelsey in Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera (Karen Almond / Met Opera) In debuting director Louisa Proske’s season-opening new production of Verdi’s Macbeth (through October 20 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Metropolitan Opera opened its new season with Verdi’s Macbeth — not the most obvious choice for a gala ...

The witches prophesy that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland, while Banquo is to be the father of kings. The prediction starts to come true immediately as Macbeth receives a ...

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 ...

MONTREAL Verdi s Macbeth certainly isn t Shakespeare s Macbeth but the music is powerful and beautiful. The Opéra de Montréal has opened a production of Verdi s 1847 opera, with the Orchestre ...

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 ...

Arts Council of Wales’s decision to axe its funding for Mid Wales Opera means this effective and cogent production is likely their last on this scale With the peremptory axing of all its funding last ...