This is a fast production. The four acts whizz past with disconcerting speed, starting with Shakespeare’s cackling witches disposing of Lady Macbeth’s miscarried child. It’s a queasy, uncomfortable ...

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Betrayal, murder and revenge are promised as one of the Bard's best-known plays heads to Norwich Theatre Royal. Verdi's interpretation of Macbeth is part of English Touring Opera's 2019 offering in ...

Unable to shake the thought, Macbeth tells his wife, Lady Macbeth. Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, posterity and ...

Northern Ireland Opera's production of Verdi's Macbeth at the Grand Opera House in Belfast has many virtues but it lacks heart and soul Macbeth, Northern Ireland Opera: Bruno Caproni as Macbeth has a ...

The day before I saw Verdi’s Macbeth at Covent Garden, I had watched on television the finals of the Glyndebourne Cup in which the world’s finest young opera singers were performing Mozart arias in ...

When it comes to a cultured evening out, nothing conjures a vision of sheer glamour like a night at the opera. True lovers of the art form, however, may wish to switch their allegiance to the matinee, ...

Based on Shakespeare it may be, but Luke Styles’s 75-minute chamber opera Macbeth (with text selected by Ted Huffman) is not the Scottish play as we know it. Axeing the witches — the better to focus ...

On its first appearance in 2008 Tim Albery's production of Verdi's Macbeth was widely praised for its energy and drama. This still holds good on its revival, with an entirely new cast and high musical ...