Verdi’s Macbeth is faithful to the plot of Shakespeare’s play, with the added dimension of music sung in Italian. Read more ...

HEARTBEAT OPERA-the daring young indie opera company concludes its sixth season with its first adaptation of Verdi: LADY M, a reimagined and re-orchestrated work-in-progress, envisioning the story of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation with her riveting performance as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi's retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy. She is joined by ...

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Macbeth is not a story of happiness. Success begets greed, violence escalates, and blood once shed demands more and more, even as guilt devours. All of these are greatly heightened in Verdi’s operatic ...