Opera Colorado will present its 2026–27 Season featuring a mix of fully staged operas, concerts, touring productions, and ...

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 ...

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Anna Pinozzi as Lady Macbeth and Simon Keenlyside as Macbeth in Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’ (Clive Barda) The Royal Opera House has been sluggish and tentative in its emergence ...

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 ...

Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for ...

Verdi was a fervent admirer of Shakespeare and was determined his "Macbeth" would have sufficient merit to justify his borrowing of the famous play for his opera. However, Bernard Uzan, stage director ...

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 ...