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 ...

Verdi’s opera is not Shakespeare’s play set to music. It’s a different, but equally beautiful, tangle of colour and emotion, and its lead role is one I am still – after many years – getting to grips ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s lifelong love for Shakespeare resulted in three exceptional operas. Because the last two, Otello and Falstaff, turned out to be among the greatest works in the entire repertoire, the ...

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 ...

This marriage ain't big enough for the both of them.

Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 staging of Verdi’s Macbeth is prematurely looking like a parody of itself - an exhibit in one of designer Anthony Ward’s gilded display cases. But it’s sounding rather terrific ...

One of York's cinemas is showing live performances of operas from the Met in New York. But what's it like going to see an opera at the flicks? Nick Lawrence went to see Verdi's Macbeth at York's City ...