Not to deal in unsolicited prophecies, but if you go see the Washington National Opera production of “Macbeth,” you’ll love it. Giuseppe Verdi’s 1847 adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic (with an ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The festival’s choice this year was among the more arcane: Macbeth in a critical edition of the now-standard 1865 ...

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 ...

The Liceu gains strength and confidently invests in its own label: the allocation of 15 million euros out of the budgeted 54.8 million for the upcoming season will give rise to, among other things, ...

Tim Bale does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

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 ...

From left, Brandon Jovanovich (as Sergei), Nikolai Schukoff (Zinovy Ismailov) and Svetlana Sozdateleva (Katerina Ismailova) in a dress rehearsal of Metropolitan Opera production of Dmitri Shostakovich ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" will kick off La Scala's opera season before hundreds of spectators later on Tuesday just as the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic is again forcing many theatres ...

MILAN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" kicked off La Scala's opera season before hundreds of spectators on Tuesday just as the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic is again forcing ...

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 ...