MIDGETTE: Verdi has a magnificent dramatic sensibility, and he was also a very astute portrayer of women. Shakespeare was a touchstone for him, and Lady Macbeth is a particularly interesting figure.

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Poor Macbeth. Henpecked, manipulated and always upstaged by his wife. Who would have thought Shakespeare’s most murderous villain would continue to take a back seat to one of literature’s fabulous ...

With radical adaptations of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and Puccini’s “Tosca,” Heartbeat Opera shows why it’s so vital to New York’s music scene. By Oussama Zahr Heartbeat Opera, a small, nimble company that ...

On Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala, starring Anna Netrebko. “It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which she will return to the Met,” said the Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb of the superstar ...

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 ...

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Crown-formed decors: Emma Dante's hallucinatory vision of Verdi's Macbeth for Turin's Teatro Regio comes to EdinburghFranco Lannino Studio There’s a nagging concern, however, about what all the visual ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...