Choosing the right opener for a theatrical season is always a fraught gamble. An opening demands ambition and momentum, all while securing trust in the audience that what follows will reward them.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis continues its forty-first season with another remarkably fine production--Verdi's Macbeth. Verdi's opera is every bit as dark and bloody as Shakespeare's drama on which it ...

This season, they presented a double bill: the 1847 version of Verdi’s Macbeth and Bellini’s beloved La Sonnambula of 1831, which here appears both in original keys and on period instruments. The ...

Don’t expect to see any kilts or bagpipes in the Boston Lyric Opera production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Macbeth’’ when it opens a five-performance run at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre on ...

Where: The Finkel Auditorium at the Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge campus, 107 Denison Placer Ave., Breckenridge When: 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11; the National Repertory Orchestra and the Lake ...

Since its debut in 2014, a radically reimagined South African production of Verdi’s opera, “Macbeth,” has played in culture capitals like Vienna, Paris and London, among a score of other venues in ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Macbeth,” which closely follows Shakespeare’s original, centers on a man, his wife and their unquenchable — and doomed — quest for power. “What makes it great to me is the arc ...

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi set out ...