Verdi's Macbeth was the first opera ever performed at the Edinburgh International Festival, and Teatro Regio of Turin's imaginative new version should be a highlight of its 70th anniversary edition, ...

Verdi’s Macbeth is not so much the ‘Scottish play’ as an essay on political ambition: there isn’t really a cauldron, and the weird sisters are the entire female chorus. He wrote some fantastic music ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shakespeare-loving Verdi began his operatic love affair with the Bard with his tenth opera, Macbeth, composed in 1847. "This tragedy is one of the greatest creations of man... If we can't make ...

The Royal Opera House has been sluggish and tentative in its emergence from pandemic sleep. It’s so nervous about getting bums back on seats that it’s giving 13 performances of its most dependable ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In this production of Macbeth the witches are nurses, clad in green as though administering anaesthetics. They ...

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 ...

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 ...