1 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights An overwhelming lust for power, a manipulative wife, and witches' prophecies spur a Scottish general onto a tragic path of betrayal ...

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 ...

In Shakespeare’s bloodcurdling tragedy “Macbeth,” one man’s quest for power threatens to unravel the cohesion of Scotland. That thread is the same in Verdi’s “Macbeth” that opens Kentucky Opera’s ...

Few tales of ambition and evil are as enduring as William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” and combined with the artistic power and opulence of opera, “the Scottish play” is a timeless and thrilling story. LA ...

Unable to shake the thought, Macbeth tells his wife, Lady Macbeth. Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, posterity and ...

Opera Carolina’s upcoming run of the Verdi masterpiece “Macbeth” is packed with witches, paranoia and murder. And no dark detail was spared in the Italian-made costumes you’ll see in this new ...

As Macbeth’s fate begins to catch up with him, the king in Los Angeles Opera’s 31 st season opener cannot look forward to having earned honor, love or compassion. His voice rises into a stressed high ...

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 ...

A new production of Verdi’s “Macbeth” starring Plácido Domingo and the company premiere of Philip Glass’ “Akhnaten” will kick off the 2016-17 season at Los Angeles Opera, leaders are expected to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In writing Macbeth, his first Shakespearean opera, Verdi was determined to deliver “something out of the ordinary”.

Théodore Chassériau (1891-56), Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches on the heath, Musée d’Orsay. Public domain. In this Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly ...

Long Beach Opera brings Shakespeare's drama to San Pedro Harbor. By Myron Meisel Macbeth Opera Still - P 2013 Inevitably this Macbeth was fated to be overshadowed by Verdi’s, though is that not a risk ...