Verdi’s Macbeth is faithful to the plot of Shakespeare’s play, with the added dimension of music sung in Italian. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The opera is presented as a staged revival and features direction by Martin Čičvák and musical direction by conductor Hermann Bäumer. The production brings Verdi’s powerful adaptation of Shakespeare’s ...

The other big idea here is the witches. Verdi expands Shakespeare’s three witches to a whole choir. Lloyd extends that idea further by having the witches behind the scenes at all times, delivering ...

Emotions ran high at the Lyric Opera Friday night. Thumping the words “together again,” the general director Anthony Freud was greeted by cheers as he heralded a return to the (newly refurbished) ...