The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special ...
Among the highlights are the world premiere of an adaptation of “Lincoln in the Bardo,” and classics like “Macbeth” and “Jenufa.” ...
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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 ...
Imaginative and powerfully delivered, the Washington National Opera’s Macbeth is the opera to drop everything and see. Verdi’s gorgeously dramatic distillation of Shakespeare’s tragedy is already ever ...
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 ...
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 ...
Giuseppe Verdi wrote three operas based on Shakespearean themes. Two of them, “Otello” and “Falstaff,” are undisputed masterpieces, composed at the end of his career. “Macbeth,” which came much ...
In the late 1840s, after enjoying success with most of his first nine operas, Giuseppe Verdi hit upon the idea of adapting some of Shakespeare’s best-known plays as operas. He enlisted the aid of one ...